Why I am the person I am today is because of my past, my family, my friends and what I love. My past has shaped the person I am because without the events or people earlier in my life I would not have been the same person, and that is why I wanted to express that through my photo. These photos represent mu past and my memories in ways words can’t. My family has made me the person I am because I have spent 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the last 15 years of my life with them. Characteristics and traits that I have picked up from my family without even realising it are small ways my family has affected who I am day by day. My friends are the family I choose. I love them for who they are and they love me for the same reasons, without them I would be very different. They are a big part of my life; they have helped create the person I am during the time I have spent with them. What I love, or my hobbies and passions, is what I choose to do with me time. Music has been part of my since I was little and I listen to it often while I am doing work or just relaxing. Reading is my escape from the world, and I love the emotions developed for characters that do not even exist. Lastly, photography is to me how I can express my feeling or memories when words fail to do so.  A photo really is worth a thousand words, so the moments most precious to me captured in an image is my favourite way of remembering a moment.