LaWanda Wilson

Last Login 09/24/09

• Mount Shasta, CA
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Looking back over my life so far, I would have to say that I’ve pretty much always had a camera in hand and have enjoyed photography since around the age of 13 years old. Soaking up all there was to see around me, trying to find a way to capture things with a perspective that might almost make the viewer feel as though they were right there when looking at the image in print. Equally around the same time frame I've always had a great fondness for baking and cooking.

Over time, I participated as a member of the school newspaper, and the yearbook staff, as a section editor and photographer, and was involved in the advanced foods program, that provided the dinners for the School Board and school clubs. Catering became a fun activity for various events such a baby showers and wedding receptions, and I created numerous wedding, birthday, and special event cakes.

More recently, I have ventured out with my photographic efforts and have enjoyed taking portraits, headshots for pageants, high school senior pictures, creating pageant program book ad layouts, and participating as a photographer for a community online website. Aside from enjoying all the portrait type work, I’m quite drawn to landscape photography. Now-a-days, I rarely leave my home without my camera in tow!

It was an honor to be the pageant photographer and program book editor, providing the graphics, design, and cover photo for the: Miss Zephyrhills, Miss Friendly City and Miss Zephyrhills Jaycees Outstanding Teen 2008 Pageants, in Florida. I also had the wonderful opportunity to be the photographer for the Miss Florida Pageant’s Orientation weekend in May. Weddings are an event that I truly look forward too, as I seek to capture the true essence of that very special moment when two hearts are joined as one.

Recently, one of my landscape images from Roxborough Park located in the Denver, Colorado region, was chosen and published in the Sixth Edition Schmap Denver travel guide for the iPhone. You can see that here: http://www.schmap.com/denver/sights_parks/#p=30270&i=30270_21.jpg

It’s the highest reward for me personally, when an image I take, touches another’s heart in some way, or teleports them back in time to a special place or memory, and what a thrill to be able to create a keepsake of a treasured moment for another… I hope by combining my passion for photography and baking that I will be able to open the "Stagecoach Cafe"... and "Capture A Dream"....

Email: Candid_Captures@yahoo.com

~New Website Coming Soon~
Will be established along with the cafe opening