User talk:Daveedbenito

Photographer Daveed Benito

Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and raised in Albuquerque

Daveed spent his childhood dreaming about the millions of

things he wanted to do later in life. From the early age

of 6 Daveed was producing small video productions with a

large VHS style video camera and even teaching himself the

art of stop motion film. Daveed also learned numerous

skills and crafts like electrical circuitry and soon

followed custom car fabrication. Daveeds skills became

obvious to himself that his creativity was endless.

Although academically challenged Daveed, soon realized

that he lacked the money and GPA in high school to

continue on to college,

so at the age of 17 Daveed joined the U.S Air Force.

During his time in the military, many trades were learned

and shared, but among the most important was his ability

to communicate as well as understand the diverse

personality's of the world.

On September 11th, 2001 Daveed was on the Flight line of

the 61st fighter squadron arming, loading and maintaining

15 F-16 fighter jets in support of our freedom on U.S.

land.

The final destination in Daveeds military career was

Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. Thus, he spent 1 year

working on F-15 fighter jets and learning the cultures

around the world.

After spending 5 years in the U.S. Air Force and being

discharged January 15 2005 Daveed came to realize being a

veteran was a tough transition and had to make a decision

about his future. Daveed made the decision to move to

Arizona with only $1000 while struggling to make his name

work.Living on food stamps to survive and hustled the

business, he knew car fabrication after a year passing and

realizing that no money was being made.

Daveed then resorted to delivering local papers to make

ends meet, until one day photography fell into his lap.

The career began from a friend who asked Daveed to take

her pictures for a site and little did he know it, from

this day on Daveed would advance in one year to full

professional photography equiped with his own studio.

As more time passed Daveed became know as the "Celebrity

photographer" of Arizona, with high end names requesting

for his services he expanded rapidly through out the

United States reaching High Demand for the photographer

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