About The Photographer

25 random facts about me…  (Pamela Nicole)

I LOVE my blackberry.  My husband calls it my blueberry.  I check it obsessively for new emails.  I mean obsessively, and I rarely get any emails that are dyer emergencies.  It’s sick really.

I still babysit.  I must be the oldest babysitter out there.  (I’m not actually that old, still under 30).  But I refuse to apologize for it – I LOVE the kiddos and until I have my very own, I will just hang out with someone else’s babies.  It beats working in a corporate office any day.

I have a dirty car.  The only time I clean it is when my father comes into town – and that is not very often.  I have accepted that I am just a “dirty car person”, and I am totally fine with it.

All my life, I have dreamed of having my very own baby girl.  She will have big curly hair, just like mine, and deep brown eyes, just like her daddy.  We will have dance parties and she can shave her legs as early as she wants.  Even if she is 6 years old.  We will call her Izabella.

I started out photographing kids by taking photos of my niece and nephew – they are gorgeous humans and gave me such incredible inspiration.

I LOVE Mexican food.  I could eat it every day – breakfast, lunch and dinner – for years, and I would never complain.

I can’t stand silence.  I always need music.  I sometimes wish that I could have a soundtrack to my life – like in a movie.  It could follow me around and play the most appropriate song for each moment.

I have a FABULOUS singing voice….  when I am alone.  I truly feel like I was a smoky jazz singer in another time…  I sing to EVERY song – and am lucky enough to have married a man that doesn’t complain …not even on road trips.

I text while driving!!!  I even update my Facebook while driving.  I even update my Facebook about Facebooking while driving, WHILE DRIVING.  I should really work on that one.

I can’t stop saying “I love you”.  To my husband – to kids – to babies – to animals.  I think I get it from my Dad.  He must have told me every chance he got that he loved me.  I open my mouth and it just comes out.  What can I say – I am FULL of love.

I think I am hilarious.  I really do – I even giggled while writing this.  I even have a secret little blog where I write up daily nonsense.  It makes me feel witty.  I crack myself up on a regular basis.  My closest friends know to give me “courtesy laughs”.  I always appreciate them.

I LOVE to play board games.  I am phenomenal at Balderdash.

I have a college degree.  A bachelors in Photography from NAU.  Some days, when I am making payments to my student loans, I think about how the money could have been better spent – perhaps on some fancy new lens – and other days, I am grateful for the opportunity that led me where I am …right in this moment.

I am a huge fan of impromptu dance parties with little ones.  Crazy, uninhibited, wacky dance parties.  At my wedding, I think I danced the whole time.  Surrounded by kiddos.  It was the time of my life.   If I can find a kid to dance with me to “Barbie Girl” by Aqualung – I am the happiest gal around.

Every time I watch a Friends rerun, I laugh and cry at least once.  Sex and the City too – they always get to me.  No matter how many times I have seen the episode.

I am a HUGE crier.  I cry for commercials.  I cry while just thinking about a commercial I cried during.  I think I actually choose what to watch based on whether if may give me a good cry or not.

I see beauty EVERYWHERE!  I have heard Yogi’s explain this feeling of pure bliss, in which you are “with god”, I feel this when I see beauty.  It can be the smell of the orange blossoms mixed with fresh cut grass – the sound of Patty  (a little one I babysit for) saying my name – Pammy, or the way a certain song can make me feel.  Sometimes it will just wash over me for a few seconds and I am totally overwhelmed with love and peace and emotion, all at the same time.

I drink wine.  I LOVE to drink wine.  I convinced myself a few years ago that I was allergic to red wine.  I am SO not allergic to red wine.

I can’t eat wheat.  That’s right – gluten intolerance.  I eat a LOT of corn tortillas and Tostitos.  And now there is this abundance of “gluten free” treats, and I have to remember that just because it came from Whole Foods and is gluten free – doesn’t mean it’s healthy.

Van Morrison makes me smile, Ani Difranco makes me feel better and LL Cool J makes me feel sexy.   I love a huge variety of music – and owe most of my taste to my father’s arsenal of records he played while I was growing up.  Not the LL thought – I am pretty sure that’s not part of his collection.

I love to listen to music in languages that I do not understand.  Portuguese is my favorite.  If you ever get a chance – check out CEU – her music is amazing.

I am writing this at 12:36 AM.  Seriously.  I had a Java Chip from Starbucks this afternoon and will be up FOREVER.  I can’t do caffeine – even a green tea will keep me up for hours.

I grew up in Tucson, moved to Phoenix, then to Flagstaff for school with my hubby, and back to Phoenix where I now reside.  And although I know I will forever be here in AZ, I have always dreamed of living in California on the beach somewhere for a year or so, maybe learn to surf.

Someday I want to drive up the coast of California – do the Big Sur thing with my husband.  We have a blast on road trips together.  I guess we better get on that – before the babies come!

I am writing these 25 facts because I have been trying to write a bio for over a year now and can’t seem to get it right.  This seemed like an easier option and I think it worked pretty well.  Thanks for listening!