This portfolio explored portraits and street photography. I always loved street photography and thought it told an amazing story. I was always to shy to go out in the street and take pictures of people so it made it hard to do street photography. This year I challenged myself to go out and just do it. It was an important thing that I wanted to do because I think being confident enough to pull out a camera in a crowd of people is an important thing to be able to do. When people see this series I hope they get inspired to go out and just take the pictures they want to. I also hope that they see the raw emotion captured, the pure happiness, the feeling of being content, doing something you love to do, etc.