What did you do when you got started?

Well, as I mentioned in my first story on how I got started with the story of Briana and her mom, I started photographing for a couple of teacher's and faculty members around the school. The first couple of sessions, I photographed two daughters for an office secretary, which led into a little boy and little girl probably around the ages of 3 and 5, which led into one of the first daughter's senior portraits, mainly with her horse.
My senior year in high school, a guidance counselor, Mrs. Shepard, saw my high interest in photography and had our local newspaper (Holmen Courier) come and do a human interest story which was titled "Passion with a camera" which after that was published she mentioned about taking some photos for them. I believe it was a sectional basketball game with the Holmen girls basketball team playing in Chippewa Falls, and I had brought my camera and was taking some action photos and got a great photo of all of the senior girls holding up the sectional championship plaque. After I had that and a couple other sports photos published, the editor Randy Erickson, called me and offered me a job. I started photographing for the Holmen Courier, Onalaska Community Life, and Coulee News, which were all of the papers that covered the immediate areas.

What did you do when you got started? Tell a story.