Hey, I’m Aaron!
Everyone has certain standout memories from their childhood—maybe it was seeing your mom or dad everyday when they got home from work, or visiting your extended family on the holidays. Okay okay, I think we all have similar core memories. However, one specific memory for me as a kid growing up was mom’s camera. It was always one of those elusive objects that was a strict “no touch” and so you know what that meant…I wanted nothing more but to get my filthy little hands on it. The camera in question was a Canon WP-1. It was a kind of white or gray-white color with red accents and it’s highlight feature was the fact it was waterproof. As a kid growing up, I was nothing short of a button pusher. Whether it was the game console, kitchen appliance or dashboard of our current car—I had to mash the buttons. HAD TO. Between the button pusher in me, the strict “no touch” camera policy and a love for electronics, I’ve always felt it was destiny for me to have a camera in my hands and that’s how I explain where this all started.
GEAR DOESN’T ALWAYS MATTER, BUT IT SURE DOESN’T HURT TO HAVE IT.
As of November 2024, AJ Media owns and operates various upper-tier Sony cameras and lenses. For photography, the weapon of choice is a Sony A7RIV and for video projects, he owns two Sony FX30 cinema line cameras.
THE TIMELINE
1991
AJ is the third and last born of three boys. He’s raised in Knoxville, Tennessee off of Pleasant Ridge Road by what was ultimately a single-mom of three.
2010
AJ Graduates from Karns High School in Knoxville.
2010 - 2017
AJ skips college and works various jobs in what were primarily customer service/sales positions, where he learned first hand how to form relationships with customers or clients, while fumbling his way through learning photography.
2013
AJ buys his first DSLR Camera, a Nikon D3300.
2017
After having met a girl in 2015, AJ packs up his belongings and moves to Cleveland, Tennessee in hot-pursuit of said girl.
2017-2019
AJ finds a retail job working for a local self-storage chain and grinds away the weeks until he realizes he’s not making enough dinero.
2019
AJ enrolls in Tennessee Truck Driving School and obtains his Class A CDL and by nature, has to quit focusing on photography.
2022
By now, AJ realizes he’s about spent on driving commercial trucks and starts investing much of his trucking-earnings into professional photo and video equipment.
2022 - 2024
AJ begins shifting his focus away from trucking and back into the photography and videography industry.
2024
AJ has transitioned away from driving trucks as much as humanly possible in pursuit of a full-time career in the photo-video industry and is ready to serve customers and clients with the best standard of service he can offer.