Intro

Well, hello to anyone reading this. Welcome to a venture I am just starting up, my blog dedicated to my photography. My name is Grant and as I type this, I am a senior in college, getting ready to graduate. I'm a meteorology major and am hoping to enter the field of research meteorology. I'm what we in the community refer to as, a weather (abbr. WX) weenie. I'm absolutely infatuated with the weather, especially severe weather (be it summer or winter).

Why am I a meteorologist with a photography blog? After my freshman year of college, I took up what would become my favorite hobby, storm chasing. Well, I wanted to document my chases so I started researching cameras. My journey landed me in my local Wolf Camera where I met a fellow amateur storm chaser who helped guide me to a decent camera to record my journeys: an 8MP, Canon Rebel XT. He showed me some little things I might need, like a cable shutter release and a tripod for lightning photos. Well, I had this (in my eyes then) fancy camera, so, why not take a class in digital photography. I enrolled in a class at a local CC and got my brother interested in the class too. (Now we're both avid photogs, but thats a slightly different story). Well, as I took the class, learned the basics of my camera and photography in general, I fell in love with it and it has since become my second favorite hobby. I started out doing only weather photography but have since journeyed into many aspects of photography. I've delved into photojournalism, glamour photography, landscapes, portraiture, and even some wedding photography. (NOTE: one thing you won't find me doing is abstract photography. I hate when someone picks up a camera, takes a random picutre and call it art. It rarely ever works.) Since it is early in the morning and this is simply to get my blog going, I'll end here. I'll post again when I can.