Photography – Seattle
There was a time when I struggled to find the beauty and joy in my life. The life of hard knocks had taken me out one too many times. A good friend said to me “Jeannita, you have to choose happiness.” It was as if a lightbulb had gone off in my head. All I was seeing was the sadness and darkness because all I focused on was the negative things that had been happening. When I began to choose, every day, to look for the beauty and the joy around me I found it. It was hard at first but with practice it became easy to find the beauty in every single day and then I began to take pictures of what I saw. I used these to remind me later, when I had a hard time remembering to choose my happiness. What started as a way of helping me to see the joy, turned into the joy in and of itself.
I became passionate about capturing the beauty and joy that I saw around me, in the landscape, in my son, and in those that I love. At some point I decided that, for me, choosing happiness meant helping others to see the beauty that I see in them, and thus, Clover Dreams Photography was born.
Since the fateful day that my friend told me to choose happiness I have used my camera to take pictures of happiness, be it my own or that of those around me. When people see my work I hope that they see what I saw and that it too, makes them happy.