Finding the me in about me

For years every time anyone asked about me they got an answer that really didn't tell much about who I was. It went something like this, "I am the wife of a 100% disabled veteran, the mother of three beautiful children, an advocate for my Autistic son..." All you wives and mother's out there know the spiel and don't get me wrong all that is a huge part of who I am but I realized that there was something missing in that answer. Where was the ME in me so about five years ago I went looking for it. Starting with going back to college. In the very first class I took I became enthralled with the portfolio a fellow student was creating for his photography class. It amazed me, mostly because it answered a question that I had been asking for years with a very obvious answer. "How do I capture all the beauty I see around me?" Well, with a camera of course. It was like someone turned a light on for me. I went home and told my husband I was going to be a photography major. He looked at me for a moment and then said "Don't you think you ought to try taking pictures before you make a decision like that." The thing was I really didn't need to. I knew right then what I wanted to do. So I bought a camera started taking pictures and in my lens I found something amazing, something I had been looking for for the longest time, I found me. Okay so now you know why I take pictures, what your probably asking is, "Why portraits?" Well, that's easy. I found out who I really was with a camera. Now I want to use my camera to capture who you really are.