{"id":8174,"date":"2015-12-16T09:12:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/?p=8174"},"modified":"2016-07-17T16:40:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T20:40:17","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/2015\/12\/16\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"In case you were interested&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been getting a lot of questions about my blog. Most\u00a0have been\u00a0general inquiries about the website and what it is about. \u00a0<em>I knew we should have written the About Me page in third person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When my blog turned <a href=\"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/2015\/11\/25\/8039\/\" target=\"_blank\">two<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, you may recall\u00a0that I was trying to figure out what I could do to mark the milestone. Well, I thought hard and decided that defining this blog, and basically reintroducing myself here is the best way to celebrate the birth of this website.<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, it&#8217;s not really a blog, but for now, we would call it that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you are reading this in\u00a02015 you probably know very little about me, and may be a little unclear on some things. Frankly, I&#8217;m still experimenting with this space, but I can tell you a few things like&#8230;<\/p>\n<h1>I will tell you why I started it<\/h1>\n<p>I started taking photography seriously in 2011 when I first moved to\u00a0Paris.\u00a0I got really interested in the idea of Photo-blogging, so I made a Tumblr when I got back to the US. I had a couple of blogs in between that, but I didn&#8217;t follow through with those because I realized I just wanted to share photos&#8230;<em>my<\/em>\u00a0photos. I loved to\u00a0just sit home and come up with edits for magazines and album covers using my photos. I truly enjoyed that&#8211;using photos to express an idea.<\/p>\n<p>I love the idea of telling a story or better yet explaining a story through photos. I love documenting. I love creating and I immensely enjoyed making art.<\/p>\n<h1>When I created this website&#8230;<\/h1>\n<p>What I really wanted was a space. A space to create just about anything. A limitless space with no rules.\u00a0I wanted a space where I could just think of anything and make it&#8230;from scratch. So I started playing with the idea of &#8220;hand making the website&#8221; I wanted everything to be original. So that, for example, if my website was a book, I would take the cover photo or create the cover art, design the text, write the words, and market the book.\u00a0That&#8217;s what you see when you look at\u00a0this website:\u00a0I take all the photographs for this website. It&#8217;s a great way to challenge my creativity, but what it really is is an opportunity to discover myself and what I can\u00a0achieve. My website became <a href=\"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/2014\/07\/25\/saving-your-best\/\" target=\"_blank\">a learning experiment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>Me, Part 1<\/h1>\n<p>I come from a diverse background myself, \u00a0I&#8217;ve experienced different cultures, and it has made me a lot of who I am today. I love learning about different cultures, people, things, I love to learn a little about everything and then I like to piece it all together&#8212;all my experiences, the places I&#8217;ve travelled to, the people I&#8217;ve met, the lessons I&#8217;ve learned, the things that inspire me&#8212;to create one big story.<\/p>\n<h2>Currently&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>I work as a freelance photographer. I live in Maryland, but I&#8217;m itching to move somewhere new. I love all kinds of photography, but I&#8217;d say <a href=\"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/fashion\/\" target=\"_blank\">fashion<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/2015\/02\/14\/love-embrace\/\" target=\"_blank\"> street photography <\/a>are my favorites. I created this website to not only serve as a platform to share my work as a photographer, but also to become a <a href=\"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/2013\/11\/30\/create-your-own-doors\/\" target=\"_blank\">creative\u00a0space<\/a>. My goal through all this is to teach myself and readers to <a href=\"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/2014\/08\/08\/my-story-part-2-here-and-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">find beauty in everything.<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>The Photographer, Part 2<\/h1>\n<p>I am mostly self-taught. I enjoy\u00a0travel photography as much as I love street photography. Although going into photography for me started\u00a0with\u00a0a love for fashion, I&#8217;ve branched out since then into various kinds of photography, and I&#8217;m constantly experimenting with other kinds. At the moment, I can tell you I am a natural light photographer who enjoys overcast light more than she enjoys <em>golden light<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Let me know if you would like to hear more about my photography equipment.<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Considering all &#8220;parts<em>&#8220;<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>What I&#8217;m doing here on this website is summing up all my experiences(me) into one big &#8220;picture.&#8221;(photo)<\/p>\n<h1>So I decided to&#8230;<\/h1>\n<p>Pick all my favorite things; <a href=\"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/fashion\/\" target=\"_blank\">fashion<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/2014\/05\/01\/the-fine-print-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">design, art,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/category\/beauty\/\" target=\"_blank\">beauty<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/category\/travel\/\" target=\"_blank\">travel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/category\/inspiration\/\" target=\"_blank\">inspiration<\/a> and then use my photography as a\u00a0medium to understand and express them.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About Armenyl<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Armenyl.com is everything I&#8217;ve studied and seen, loved and heard, \u00a0and tried to understand, through photos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">&lt;3<\/h1>\n<p>I hope I answered your questions and this helps to give you some <em>clarity<\/em> on what this website is about. 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