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Hector De La Cruz

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My passion for Photography began about 15 years ago when a friend of mine received a camera for Christmas. At first he was excited and enjoyed taking pictures with it, however, after a while he grew tired of it and moved on to other things. That's when I started taking pictures with it and experimenting with the camera. One day we were on a pier and I was taking pictures of the sunset when someone on the pier bumped into me and bye bye went the camera.

A few years later I purchased my own camera and began once again taking pictures of friends and experimenting with features. Unfortunately, shortly after that my camera was stolen along with the laptop which contained all the pictures that I had taken over the course of the year. I was devastated and with my time at college coming to an end and my career ramping up, I didn’t purchase a replacement camera.

8 years later, I was the one who received a camera for Christmas and that spark from long ago was reignited. I began to learn even more and took courses on photography. Eventually, people around me noticed and began asking me to take their pictures and capture moments in their lives or shoot products for their Etsy Shops and even their websites. Someone close to me suggested that I make it a career instead of a hobby. I considered it for a while and then began to think back to how much I truly enjoyed the art of photography. Hence, I took the leap forward and here I am.

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A self Portrait from the Camera 15 years ago