Sam Jackson

 

OK, I was Born on the 10th of March 1989 in Tasmania, i am still living in Tasmania, i think it is such a beautiful place with amazing scenery that can be enjoyed every day, it really insipres me with its beauty.

 

Guess i better start at the beginning of my photography years though. . .

I started taking photos when i was about 15 years old of my brother racing his jet ski with the club he was in (the TJSBC) with my old trusty Olympus C-700. I didnt get bad results back then either.
It was having other people like my photos and comment on them that started me to really get into Photography and enjoy it.

 

So with my new interest i decided to do two years of the photography course at Rosetta High School. Taking, admittedly, terrible photos, but most of that was film, B&W darkroom stuff which i still am terrible at!
But nonetheless i was still having fun and learning some basic skills in photography.

 

So after high school i did another two years of photography at Claremont College, where my passion really grew (i also got a Fuji Finepix S9500 as a birthday present which helped it along) throughout the two years i learnt lots about photography in general, and i self taught myself a lot about cameras and lenses (whihch is now another hobby of mine). it was in these years to where my interest in flowers began, i don't really know why, i have no reason other than i like the look of the photos when they are finished!
At the end of college I came out with high marks for both years and photography student of the year for 2007, as well as having my photos picked from the end of year display to be shown in the Tasmanian Art Rage Exhibition, the only person in my college to have that honour (even though the external examiners gave me shoddy marks!).

 

This last year year i was doing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at university, with a plan to go on and do a Bachelor of Teaching. Until the written work and expressing of my feelings about everything i do, got the better of me!
Now I'm not really doing anything, more planning what i should do with the rest of my life, i realise that i wont ever make a living with my photos so im trying to figure out another career path.

 

But I will always still take photos!