Alicia Lynn Photography

I didn't just wake up one day and think, I really want to be a photographer. Honestly it happened over a matter of a couple decades. It really started to spark for me when I was maybe eight or nine years old. I was given a Kodak digital film camera for a birthday/christmas gift one year. My birthday falls on Christmas, so it is hard to remember which is which. I remember taking pictures of our family on holidays. I would pose my dogs in the yard for a doggy portrait. I would take pictures of my neighbors cats. Really anything that I thought looked "cool enough to photographed". I would also bring disposable cameras on the last day of school in the tenth grade. I needed to remember everything about that time of my life. After that era, I joined the military at seventeen. Around that time the polaroid i-zone camera came out. I managed to sneak one into basic training and would charge other soldiers money to take their picture so they could send the pictures home to their families. I still had no idea that I would be a professional photographer.

About a few years later I was deployed to Iraq in 2004. By then I finally owned a digital camera. Of course I photographed everything that I could to send home in pictures. I took pictures of mushrooms clouds caused by IEDs to Iraqi men bathing in a street puddle. I photographed stray animals to the graffiti of the countries feelings for war and Saddam Husen. In 2008 after I left the military I went back overseas to work as a contractor as a technical writer. By then I had almost finished a business degree. By this time of my life I knew I wanted to own a business someday, but still no idea it would be photography. As a technical writer I had to document and photograph the installations of counter electronic warfare equipment for military vehicles. Yes a serious job. I worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. I wasn't even 23 years old yet. As my contract was coming to an end that is when I started to realize photography was it. For some reason photographing tiny bolts to large up armored vehicles is what made me want to take it serious. I wrote back home about wanting to further my education and my cousin (who was also a photographer) suggested I go to The Southeastern Center for Photographic Studies at Daytona State. It was in my home town area. After returning home I received my BA in photographic studies and I have been in business for almost 10 years now.

All those memories are what makes me continue to want to document every moment. I really believe that photographers are historians. I get the feels when I photograph couples in love and real family moments. You can never make the same moment up again.

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