My name is Erin Leigh Cavin, I go by ErinLeigh or "Air".

I am a photographer.
I am graduating from SLCC in the summer of 2013 and attending Utah University fall of 2013.

Working on cars is my happy. 
I love people and little humans. Foto is my passion.
Rock climbing is my release.
Piano is my expression.
Music resonates with my soul.
A cardiothoracic surgeon is my future.
LDS is my lifestyle.
People are my inspiration.
Premed is my current path.
Surfing is mind opening and spiritual.
Running is when I turn off my mind and am liberated.
I blog personally and authentically with full disclosure.
I'm on a journey to find myself, raw, real, true and authentic.

 I have a large family, and I love every dynamic of it. I am the oldest of seven siblings, ranging from 19 years old to two months old. My siblings and I constantly banter and play around. My dad and I work on cars together. My mum and I hang out with the baby and talk. I am close to all of them and love that fact. My oldest younger brother is currently serving his mission in Cordoba, Argentina, while the rest are in school (except for the baby, of course). 

Photography is my passion, it's what I do to express my emotions, to let them run free. My photographs are saturated with the emotions felt when it was captured, and it is evident in them. I shoot both digital and film, however, I prefer film. Film, to me, requires so much more work, much more time, patience, and understanding. It's so much more than "click" and there's your foto on the LCD screen. It's understanding the lighting, shadows, the Zone System (scale of greys, whites blacks), the subject and how that subject plays into the back and foreground. FIlm is emotion. Film is love. Film is life. It is vital, it is real, it is authentic. It shows everything I strive to become and work for. Digital is a whole other world, and I love it as well. I love the convenience, the ease, the comfort. I love being able to snap 1000 fotos without worrying about running out of exposures, I love being able to take as many fotos as necessary and one of them if bound to work out. I love them both. But they are different worlds, different worlds with different appreciations.

 

I lived in Hawai`i for a year and attended Hawai`i Pacific University. My original major was Marine Biology. I lived in Hau`ula which is just a bit south-east of the La`ie temple. 
The culture of north-east side Oahu resonated with my soul and for the first time in my young 19 year old life I felt I belonged. I found myself in Hawai`i. I fell in love in Hawai`i, with the salty air the ocean breathes, the sandy grounds, the flowing waters, the humid thick air. With the people, their loving accepting, helpful demeanor. And the fact that no one wears shoes anywhere there, and in elementary school, the little humans actually take off their slippers before they go into the classroom. I love everything about Hawai`i. I miss it immensely. And my goal is to end up there, permanently. To live in Hau`ula or La`ie, to live  by the ocean that brings beautiful clarity and to have little humans running around in nothing but their underoos. 

Rock climbing and repelling is something I have recently taken up. And I couldn't be more grateful for it. I was struggling this past year fiercely, trying to find and understand, trust and believe in myself. This sport requires two things I haven't had in a long time, trust and confidence in ones self. Something I have been struggling to gain once again. At first, it was terrifying, simply because of the need to have confidence and trust, my fear of heights set aside. But, I did it. I climbed. I trusted in myself. I had confidence that I could in fact, do it. The heights get at me when I'm being belayed, but if I self repel, I'm golden. Rock climbing brought feeling back into my life, it brought a rush of emotions that I had been suppressing for months on end, it brought forth all of them. And I am ever grateful for that.