About Squee
Eww. I have to write an about me page? Ugh. I’m totally judging every person who clicks on that header and finds themselves here. Go look at the (hopefully) pretty photos I have up. Go read my “free photography” diatribe. Anything other than me having to sell myself in three paragraphs or less to validate my attempt at being a professional.
Is this what you people wanted? Is this what makes you sickos happy? Be warned, if you continue reading prepare yourself for an overabundance of snark.
As far as I’ve been able to surmise so far in life, I’m a dude. Not just any dude mind you. But a rad fucking dude. The type of dude that uses words like “rad”. I’ve been alive for three decades now. In my humble opinion, it’s probably been thirty years too many. I didn’t have the smoothest childhood, to which I’ll only allude to as my blah-blah-blah super-villain origin sob story. The benefit of life never going your way is that you learn to have a stronger work ethic which has proven invaluable in giving me that leg up against other people.
For what it’s worth I’ve been able to be a middling success in a multitude of industries ranging from advertising, to hospitality and security. I’ve been an office drone, I’ve been the shift worker, I’ve been the independent contractor working on commission. Despite the fact that I’ve hated all those jobs in all sorts of different ways, each of them has taught me individual life lessons and made me a better person for it. Which I hope to apply in my own “pre-professional” (trademark pending) photography phase in effort to actually love what I do for a living. What an exotic concept.
I’ve only gotten into photography seriously this year, despite a lifelong fascination. Thus my entire “free photography” project for me to get more experience. I was a poor kid growing up (and arguably a poor adult now), so cameras were a rarity in my home outside of the special occasion where instant cameras were purchased and you had to take to get developed, which in my case was in the back of a local pharmacy for some reason. Which was a process I adored. I would set up displays of my half broken toys I got from the St Lawrence Market Sunday flea market, similar to the dioramas and scenes that I like photographing now.
But actually owning my own camera, even just a standard digital point and shoot didn’t happen until I was in my late teens. At which point a million useless pictures were taken that would make even the most selfie obsessed teens nowadays blush. It was fascinating, being able to capture little slices of moments in time, adding significance to what might otherwise be forgotten. I was hardly someone who was “getting into photography”, at the time I was just someone who enjoyed the ability to freely take pictures, not limited to the cost or limits of traditional film. But outside of a few courses that touched on the subject and my being accepted to Seneca’s highly in demand film school (which I couldn’t afford to attend), I haven’t actually indulged in the more sophisticated side of photography until now, mostly because it’s so damn expensive to get started and I’ve never been rolling in the money.
Post-Covid I find myself looking for a happier, more interesting and ideally a better future. None of what I’ve been doing has been helping with that. So I decided to go all in on a brand new career field and bet on my accumulated skills so far getting me where I need to go. But I need experience to get there. And since those opportunities don’t stroll up and pinch me on the behind, I gotta go out asking to be pinched. Offering free photography help to those in need allows me to learn as I go, maybe assists a few people in the local community, make some connections in various other industries, and possibly build up some relationships for future actually paying work. And if all else fails, photography is still fun. So all of my headaches, the learning, time and monetary investment, none of that matters as long as I enjoy doing it. Right? RIGHT?!
If you’re interested in some free photography help, please send me a message with some details about what you need and feel free to send me affirmations that I am in fact most definitely right.
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