​My name is Melissa Kay, and I'm currently studying Level 3 photography at college. I started getting into photography about three years ago, as it started off as a hobby. I would go out around my neighbourhood and take photographs of flowers, trees, such as going into the woods and taking some beautiful landscape pictures only using my phone, which luckily has a pretty good camera to it. I then started to progress, as I started using my mums camera and I was using short depth of field in a lot of my images, such as finding a beautiful and colourful flower outside and having tat completely crisp and in focus and having the background completely blurred out. I then started to love the idea of nature photography, but focusing more on flowers as I found it really interesting and I felt comfortable taking the images as I knew what I was doing. I then came to the end of year eleven, and I originally wanted to go off and do A'levels, not thinking what I wanted to study but in the fact that all my friends were going to do that, so I thought that's what I would have to do. However, I then came to the realisation that A'levels wouldn't be for me, so I turned to photography, as it's something I've always loved and had an interest in for years, so I thought I would enrol into Level 3 Photography and do the Extended Diploma. Now looking back, I think that choosing this course was the best thing for me. I will now go onto the second year of my course and continue studying photography. I think that once my course has ended I would like to get into an intern-ship in London and hopefully progress into nature photography, that could be either freelance or working for a published magazine.