My name is Aaron Hall and I am the Owner and Chief Executive Officer of Go2Pix. I started photography back in 2011 when I was active duty military. We lost our photographer and the ship needed someone to volunteer. I always had a high interest in visual arts since I was a child. I had been drawing pictures since I was about 5 years old. How much harder could photography be? Well, it was pretty challenging. At first I thought I was doing some amazing work. I submitted my work to online forums and they tore my photos apart. I felt really bad at first, I wasn’t prepared for that level of criticism from the online community. But, I listened. I learned to filter the information. I needed to realize that because my photos were bad or not that good, it didn’t mean that I was not a good person. I kept listening to feedback from Facebook Groups and they really were invaluable sources of information. Yes, criticism, subjective or critical, are both invaluable sources of information. I learned that our jobs as visual artist is to see how well we can communicate story telling and emotion to people.