Gretchen Wittry Photography

I picked up my first camera at age 14. Within a year I attended a two-week intensive photography camp in Vermont where I learned how to shoot manually. On day 1 of camp they told us if any of our submissions throughout camp were taken in automatic, we would not be eligible for redeeming college credit for the camp. I went into the camp with next to no knowledge of how to shoot a camera in a manual, and I left exclusively shooting a manual. I took a few more photography classes in high school and college, and my work was published for the first time when I was 17. Throughout the rest of high school and college, I spent my non-school and non-sports time practicing. I used my friends as models until the moms in the community started offering to pay me to photograph their child’s high school senior portraits. Through college, I photographed countless high school seniors, families, graduates and first ever LinkedIn headshots. I started photographing couples and weddings in 2018, and I’ve been hooked ever since.