My story :) My name is Evita. I am from a country called Latvia. It is a beautiful place to visit. Full with nature and old buildings with amazing architecture! For more information look here :) I live in USA since 2012 and South Bend IN was my first home town then we moved to Mishawaka IN and now I am on Long Island NY. I am married to a wonderful American guy and we have two amazing kids :) We got new kitty for 2016 Christmas. And what about our tiny family member...Great Dane puppy. I have always loved pictures. To hold them, to look at them. And as my sister died when I was young, pictures are my only memories of her. Since then I have always tried to capture moments of me and my family's life. I started with my phone...yes...phone - I could not afford any photo camera back then. When I started going to a university I was lucky to buy a used small Canon shot camera, I kept trying to take pictures with that. Nothing professional, nothing beautiful...but still making stories and memories with it. I got my first job and save enough money to buy pretty old but much more better photo camera. So good quality back then. I took pictures of nature - mostly sky and flowers! I loved it. When I met my husband he thought that I was a photographer, because he always saw me carrying my camera! I was not. I just continued to capture the amazing moments of my life. I remember traveling to USA for the very first time. That story is worth a few chapters of a book. But as fate would have it...my future husband was waiting for me in the airport lobby taking pictures of me as I arrived...He had a camera...one that I was dreaming for. He knew that my old camera broke in an unfortunate accident. It was just too old and used too much to hold any longer. He gave me that camera he was holding - it was my Christmas gift from him on our very first date here in USA. He says that I am doing a great job capturing emotions in pictures and I should do what I love! Here is my long story in short version :)