Dee Hang

Hi everyone! I want to call myself a beginning photographer, however, all that I am is a human being just like you trying to live a life that I love.

I'm from Minnesota, USA and what got me into this was time. YES, TIME! Or the feeling of losing hold of my time. Three years ago, I became a registered sleep tech working nights and the most I got out from that was stress. I force myself to stay awake when my body is fighting for sleep; I sleep when my body wants to be up and doing anything or everything like a normal person would. Eventually, I realized I was always working, always resting for work or always tired from work. I didn't see anyone much anymore due to opposite shifts and I spent a ton of time alone. I felt like I was dying... Therefore, I gave myself the chance to live again! What would truly make me feel lively...?

Simple, I wanted to be in a world where one could express their own thoughts or feelings, a world where no one could tell you you're wrong.... or right. I wanted to be me and show the world what it means to be me; what I love, what I cherish, what I do, what I can do. No one should be able to judge you upon what makes you HAPPY!

Capturing moments or just things and places is like freezing a memory. Memories are awesome because you can always look back and understand how it made you grow, change or how it just makes up a piece of you. Knowing who you are is so important, I live by this rule and I don't believe you will ever master being yourself unless you do what YOU TRULY WANT TO DO! Don't ever let anyone keep you from doing what you were meant to do.

I have been so inspired by so many other photographers; thanks to Instagram, Flickr, Facebook and many other sites where I am able to follow all these amazing people with undeniably great talent. I've searched and searched in hopes of finding something I am truly passionate about and that has lead me to finally create a life's goal for myself; a dream where I can look forward to everyday and work towards. My ultimate goal is to start traveling way more than I do now and capture all the beautiful things in this world. It will take time. It will take hard work. Some may say I'm silly. But the end will be absolutely rewarding and worth it. Because in the end, I'll be happy and know I spent my time doing what I love.