Christine Donovan Photography

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If you have "friended" me on facebook, you've no doubt read my infamous status update "does what she loves, and loves what she does". It rolled off my tongue a few years ago as I was on the road, on my way home from a photo shoot. It was my second session with a family in Fredericton, they had recently moved and wanted me to capture her horse and their dogs in their new digs. It was hot and I was over dressed, a melty mess in the sweltering heat. I stopped on my way home for a bottle of water, and as I was walking back to my truck, I realized that despite being uncomfortable with the heat, I couldn't wipe the smile off my face. When I'm alone, I must admit, I think in "facebook status update style" and as I was on my way back to Moncton, I wriggled those words off in my head. I couldn't help but think of how fortunate I am to be doing what I love, and loving what I do. It's a simple phrase that sums up what this passion, turned career, means to me.

When did this start for me? Really, I think it's been part of my life since the beginning. I was asked one time, by my Uncle Jim, an accomplished painter, what my "thing" was. At first, I didn't know what he meant. I was out of high school and my extra curricular, other than work was now up to me, and aside from warming stools at my favorite bar once a week, I couldn't think of anything that really excited me. There was a bit of a pause, as I thought, I have a horse to ride, I play the guitar, and these are things that I do, but really, what is my "thing". It was a question that always stayed in the back of my mind. Years later, when I started getting busy with this photography thing, I realized that I had finally answered Jim's question, and can't thank him enough for asking it.

I have never taken a photography course, I have been encouraged to do so, but have always learned best by trial and error. It makes me smile now, when I am faced with different situations for shooting, that I instinctively know what to do. My mentors have been some of the biggest names in the equine photography industry, I look back fondly upon a series of email messages from the great Susan Sexton. I went through a time of feeling uninspired in my work, and she snapped me out of that, really fast! I studied Adobe Photoshop under Melanie Levy, another great. The beautiful thing about the Internet is that I have resources at my finger tips, when before, they would have been out of reach.

My shooting style is from the hip. I am consistent in one thing, that is, that I love to show you a little bit of yourself, as I see you. I make your ordinary extraordinary, I make you fall in love with your self, your family, who you were, and who you have become. There is no staging, there is no set up. It's you and your life, in front of my lens.



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