{young photographers} Jessica

Today’s blog post comes from Jessica from Brokenframe photography. I ADORE this girl and am enjoying watching her grow into the photographer she is. She has a unique perspective and is truly talented! Jessica is a sweetheart and I am so blessed to know her! Enjoy ~Katie

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Last Tuesday, Katie invited me to write a guest post on her blog. As you may guess, I was thrilled! I couldn’t wait to get started! I knew everything I wanted to say, and I felt completely prepared..it was awesome. Then I sat down and stared at my computer’s blank screen, and I realized I had absolutely no idea where to start…

So I’ll start with my name.

I’m Jessica Dick. I am sweet 16. I live in the middle of no where with 9 of the most supporting and loving family members a girl could want. My life as an artist began three years ago, on a very snowy Christmas Morning. October 2010, I opened my business, Brokenframe Photography. Being a photographer wasn’t a life long dream of mine. It wasn’t something I asked for or saw myself as being; but it was something God saw me as being, and His plans for me have always been 100 times better then my own. (: Everything from my first camera, to my first client, to my internship with Katie has been all Him. It makes me want to jump up and down with pure joy and sit down in honest amazement! Photography was literally, a gift given to me…and it has grown me in so many ways! It allows me to truly see.

The passion behind my dream can be described by my business’ name, Brokenframe. Like all my great epiphanies, it came to me while I was trying to be awesome on Facebook, haha. It happened just like those cartoons where a light bulb pops up over a character’s head. Brokenframe Photography…It was brilliant, it was catchy, and it was the perfect symbol for my mission… To show as many people as I could the beauty God gave them despite their “broken frames”. I realized that, although I didn’t dream of being a photographer, or a young business woman, I did dream of making a difference…and photographs have given me the ability to do just that. To see the smiles on the faces I photograph….I can’t even begin to describe the feeling. My heart just soars!

I am a photographer because I know the value of memories, and how fast moments pass. I take pictures because I value capturing the moments to remember. If life has taught me one thing, it is this, we are only given one chance. One chance to make as many memories as we can. One chance to be a light to a very dark world….and I want to make it count. Capturing memories is so much more then my passion, it is my purpose! Life is so precious, and everything you do counts. My cousin Krista taught me that. She lived life to the fullest, even when the cancer came and she was too sick to stand…she still lived. Her house is covered in photographs. Every single moment is displayed in beautiful frames covering her walls, or plastered on her fridge, and I know that those photographs meant the world to her three little girls and her husband she left behind. Krista’s voice may fade from her youngest daughter’s memory, but those images will never let her forget her mama’s face, or the love that was so evident when she looked at them. To be able to do that for other families…it means so much. I get to stop time, and save something precious. I can’t describe it…it’s well, amazing! I’m thankful and grateful every day for what I get to do.

Blessings,
Jessica