Larry Birkhead

And then I grew up there and, you know, it was a great place to grow up.

And while I was there, you know, going through high school, I started wanting to get into journalism and things like that.

And

Um, so I actually started, um, you know, taking classes with photography when I was in college, I took a lot of journalism classes and that was my major and everything.

And so basically, um, kind of just wanted to, um, go down that path, but I didn't really know kind of where I wanted to fit in the, in the whole journalism thing.

So I

I started getting interested in like celebrity photography and some stuff like that.

And so I actually started out writing.

And when you're in Kentucky, there's not a ton of stuff when it comes to like celebrity stuff.

So you have to either travel to Nashville.

Yeah.

Shout out to Wynonna.

Yeah.

Or, you know, you go, you know, you travel to the big cities and you do work.

So I kind of like carved out a little, you know, spot for myself to where, you know, my career took off when I was like just in the right place at the right time.

I had a, I was doing a lot of volunteer work for the Derby Festival and they were recruiting people to come in for the Derby and things.

And it was a year that I,

I was kind of like, you know, like Mr. Haney on Green Acres, you're doing this, but you're also doing that.

Yeah, so I was kind of like, at the same time, I was trying to break into the photography stuff.

So there was a situation where there was the whole movie Titanic craze, you know, had just happened, and