After nine years of fine art training and design experience, it was an enthralling transition to pack away the paintbrush and cater to a camera. Attending the Indiana Art Institute and IUPUI gave me the strong technical skills necessary to make the move however, it was the words of a mentor that gave me the right focus point.

Now, with over 17 years experience in portrait and wedding photography, his words still ring true: If you can learn to see and look for light, it will become your new medium. The challenge of looking for light has left me with a much different vocation than one might expect. I knew that photographing a lifeless documentation of what people look like was not my hearts desire. I discovered over the years that capturing an image of a persons truest self, often hidden by years of familiarity, was my sincerest longing. Uncovering this often obscured light has become a life-long passion.

Eugene H. Peterson once wrote, "The great masters of imagination do not make things out of thin air; they direct our attention to what is right before our eyes. With their help we see it not as commonplace but as magnificent, not as timeworn but as timeless." Showing my clients that their lives have a unique purpose and an inestimable worth has become my highest calling as a professional photographer. To preserve life's most endearing moments, to restore significance to commonality, and to paint and discover Gods promised light has become my greatest pleasure and continual infatuation. And now, following in the footsteps of my mentor in a life-long journey for light, I have made my own simple observation. God is truly the Master Artist I am merely his paintbrush.

Annette Biggers