I was watching Jasmine Star, a genius wedding photographer doing a class on CreativeLive.  She only started shooting 4 years ago…but has become a sensation and an inspiration to many (including me).  Its crazy to me how once again I’m inspired to take on another hobby, which could easily turn into something more if I just put my mind to it.

10 years ago I was working towards a career in professional car racing (drifting).  It proceeded to take all the fun out of racing for me.  8 years ago I switched gears (to reality) and founded Drifting Pretty (a woman’s car racing school).  Since then its been going strong!  In 2005 I became an expert (especially on paper/invitations) and got married, grew my family, got a safe 9-5 in finance, and became an expert in real estate and bought a house.  I find things like racing, wedding invitations, real estate and they all interest me so much.  I want to learn everything there is about them and embrace it all.  I don’t ditch things when they get boring, I just keep them on the plate and keep nibbling away at them.  Is that is a weakness or a strength!?

I took up photography officially when Benson & my buds got me an SLR last October.  Since then, I’ve taken 7,000 shots and have been learning so much.  I’m having so much fun taking portraits of my friends, and their kids especially and even my students in Drifting Pretty.  My cats have been loving the attention too.  Where is all this headed?  Another “hobby” or more?

Hi I’m Nadine, I love racing cars and teaching women how to do that.  Oh yah and I’m an aspiring photographer?  I have to let this all soak in.

For now, I’ll leave you with more of my journey to figuring out what the heck I’m doing with the camera.

Clouds
I put on the polarizer again after a stressful day at work.  This is how I de-stressed:

This is me aiming the camera straight at the cloud covered sun.  The pics turned about more amazing than they looked on the SLR screen.  I thought they were going to suck, so I switched to taking pictures of Vera Wang.  She was the challenge.  Constantly following within 3″ of my camera.  I learned to run in front of her really quick, turn around, lie on the ground and snap 3 quick shots before she made it to my lens.

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