Photography - Jessika Lester

Photography

Photography is something that I have come to love. I started doing photography when I was about 15 years old. I couldn’t get past how much could be said in a picture without any words being said at all. I started off with a little pocket sized camera which was nice at first but I knew I could see myself going further into the photography life.

My mom saw how much I was starting to take hold onto photography and decided to help me take a big step into getting a professional camera with the lens and everything you could imagine. When I first got the camera, I couldn’t put it down. I was taking pictures of anything and everything! I really enjoy taking pictures of my horses the most. With the new camera that I got, I compared the pictures to the one I had been using before and wow did it make a big difference!

Since getting the new camera, I got a tripod as well. I love the tripod! I love looking through the lens and snapping pictures of people’s memories, that they can have and keep for a life time, but I also like to do that for myself as well! Since picking up photography I have been able to capture wedding, senior, anniversary, and maternity pictures! I hope to continue this hobby and see how far I can get with it!  

Some pictures I have taken

Skeet Shooting - Jessika Lester

Skeet Shooting

Something I have come to enjoy doing recently is skeet shooting! I enjoy the challenge of taking a gun and hitting a target up in the air! I came across this sport when I came home one day and saw my brother and a bunch of his friends shooting the gun at Frisbee like disk that are being slung up into the air. I thought to myself how hard could this really be, I mean you have a scope. Thinking that I could be a professional at first I walked over to my brother Ryan and his friends and asked if I could try. My brother started laughing and said “yeah sure let’s see what you can do”

I grabbed the gun, loaded it and proceeded in the stance to get ready for them to “pull” or release the skeet up into the air. I yelled “pull’ and the florescent orange fisk went flying in the air. POW ….. I turned and looked at my brother and his friends and said “ I think I missed it”. They started laughing at me because I couldn’t hit one to save my life the whole day!

I knew I would need to practice this before the next time we meet again. So sure enough I went outside and started practicing when my brother wasn’t home. After a couple of weeks, I came home to find them all outside shooting skeet again, this time I was ready. I parked my truck and walked over to them. This time they handed me the gun because they wanted to entertainment at laughing at me because I couldn’t get it last time, little did they know I had been practicing!

I load the gun and get myself situated for them to sling the skeet out for me. I yell, “pull” the skeet disk went sailing out, I rearrange the gun right on where I wanted it to be, pulled the trigger, POW! I look over to my brother and his friends, their jaws were dropped and I gave them a little smile, cocked the gun “chh chh”, blew down the barrel so smoke would come out, handed the gun back to them, and walked inside leaving them with their mouths to the ground!

Me shooting the gun!

Somethings I Enjoy - Jessika Lester

                                                                   

                                                                        Enjoy Life

 

Throughout my life, I have been privileged to be able to do many things in my life. I am all about riding horses, shooting guns, skim boarding, snowboarding, basically any kind of sport I am interested in! I love photography with a passion. It’s something that can express itself with no words and to me that says a lot. I enjoy doing must of these activities in the summer because it is my favorite time of the year! I love going out and laying on the beach! The warmth coming off from the sun darken my skin, with a little wind breeze hitting me is one of the best feelings!

 Just writing about this makes me wish it was summer now! I do like the snow, but I like the beach way better! To me, the beach is a place to go that relaxes the mind and the body. I honestly don’t see how people can hate the beach! I know as soon as I am finish with my last exam at Richard Bland, I will be going to the beach! Even though it’s going to be freezing I’m sure with this crazy weather we got going on, I still want to feel as though it is summer!

Skimboarding

Photograhpy!

(my brother and his fiance)

 

 

 

Summing It Up A Little - Jessika Lester

My Family Summed Up

My mom has been a big role model to me for a long time now. She knows me probably better than anyone walking on this earth. She has stood by me through thick and thin and God knows she is a VERY strong individual. I’ve seen firsthand my mom handle very difficult times, and I hope that when I’m older I take apart of her strengths in life. God really knew what he was doing when he put my mom in charge of me and I couldn’t think him enough!    

When I was born I was raised with my two older brothers, K.J. and Ryan Lester. They are two people that I look up to a lot. K.J., he has the brains of Einstein! He can fix things that I would have never thought could be fixed! If anything of mine (electronically) needs to be fixed, I know who to take it to. Ryan on the other hand, knows everything mechanically that needs to be fixed. I would say I have it made because if my cell phone breaks, I take it to KJ and if something needs to be done to my truck, I take it to Ryan!

I couldn’t have asked for better brothers to have been blessed with. Even though they get on my everlasting nerves at times, I wouldn’t want to trade them for the world. They both have specials places in my heart and I am so thankful to have them in my life today. They have taught me so much in life that I couldn’t have figured out on my own. I think about how many times and memory I’ve been able to share with them and those times are so of the best days of my life.

 



Barrel Racing - Jesiska Lester

Something I enjoy most in my life is barrel racing. The objective of the event is to race around barrels that are set up in the shape of a clover. If you hit over a barrel (which is what you are running around), you will get a five second penalty. It might not sound like much, but you might as well kiss winning goodbye, being that you are trying to knock out people by tenths of a second!

I have been barrel racing since I was 6 years old. I started out at local shows with my first horse Teddy, who had a way of winning anyone’s heart over if you went out to see him. I kept practicing trying to get better and with time, I did. I went on to becoming Grand Champion at the local shows and once I mastered that, I was ready for more competition. I knew if I wanted to step up my game it was time to get a bigger horse, being that Teddy was a smaller horse!

I then got a horse named Lover. This horse was nothing but speed and legs! When I first went to see this horse my mouth literally dropped because I was so happy to have found the horse that I would be starting my new records with. It took some time to get her on the right track because she was fairly new at barrel racing but after we clicked, we have be doning fantastic! She has won me awards, and money, and a memory that I will never forget. This year we did so good, that she placed in every division, and I am going to world this year (biggest event for barrel racing). I’m more than excited to go to world, and I hope that we do great and place!

                LOVERRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!