Our whole family is blessed with incredible talents... all of which are completely different. I am the athletic and sporty child. Any sport that can be played, I played at some point in my life. Taylor and Katie both dabbled around with different sports, but realized at young ages that it wasn't their thing. Taylor found his niche with singing and acting when he was around nine or ten. He started taking voice lessons and acting in some community theaters and really developed his skills throughout the years.
Taylor moved from doing small plays to acting in commercials and actually getting paid for his talent. He tried out for some small movies here and there, but never had any luck; so he decided to concentrate on music. He began writing his own songs, not really thinking anything would come of what he scribbled down. As he got older, the number of songs he wrote got bigger and bigger, and in my opinion, the quality of the songs got better as well. He graduated high school and went to the University of North Texas on a music scholarship. Once he had been there for a semester, he decided he didn't want to major in music, which would cause him to lose his scholarship. He transferred back to the University of Memphis and began living back at our parents house.
Taylor and my mom decided it was time to start getting some of his original songs finished and recorded. So that is what they worked on. He made sure he had a good number of his original songs finished, and they headed into the recording studio to get them recorded! Now that the recording process is just about finished, he has a CD with nine songs on it, three or four of which are his originals!!! His CD will be finished really soon, and his songs will even be for sale on Itunes! Check him out on facebook here or on youtube here!
Video create for the following videos goes to Josh Taylor, who recorded and edited them!
Taylor in the studio recording his original song "Sundress"
Taylor and his friend, Lauren, singing the cover song "Girl from Ipanema"
Katie found her talent and passion for photography while she was in middle school. We had a family digital camera that she started out taking random pictures on; then she graduated to using our mom's Nikon and really started to concentrate on photography. Her skills developed so quickly that it's hard to keep up!
She started out taking most of her pictures of flowers and different objects. She mastered those photography elements very quickly and wanted to start getting into portraits. She came to visit me in Murfreesboro, so I set up a day where we could walk around MTSU and she could take pictures of anything she wanted; and I would be her model! I also made sure she had time to take some portraits of Aiden, a friends son!
Needless to say, the pictures turned out amazing. When Katie started high school, she had many opportunities to take classes that were about photography. She was also blessed to have our grandparents buy her a Nikon camera and our parents buy her a few different lens for it! She has been able to go to some photography seminars and even have some internships where she gets to use her photography skills! She has been able to experience many different types of photography, and it has helped her learn many things.
Katie is about to be a Junior in high school, but her pictures would make you think she is a professional. She is lucky to have many family members and friends who LOVE having their pictures taken, so she gets lots of practice and uses the photos she takes to build her portfolio. She is hoping to go to college and use her passion in some sort of photography or digital media major. Her ultimate goal is to work for Pixar, which is pretty cool!!!! I can't wait to see where her talent takes her! She is in Memphis, so if anyone needs some pictures taken, hit her up! You can check her out on facebook here!
I love being able to brag on my siblings and their amazing talents! I love them and I hope they know I'm one of their biggest fans!
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