My name is Nadia Martinez. I currently live in Orange County, California.  I double as a photographer, thought ponderer, and excessive rambler (see what I did there). I love to explore. I love the desert. I love palm trees. I hate waking before the sun, but I will because I love a sunrise. I chase sunsets. I love road travel. I love road travel alone. I love words and what I can do with them. I love stories. I love love stories. I love love.

I work in an office in Anaheim, California and have many rules to follow. Part of the reason that I love photography is that I can take the photos that tell the stories I want to tell. I can choose to follow the rules or not and, at this point in my life, I just want to tell the story and forget the rules.

What you'll see on my website is the story of a life I am learning to love a little more everyday. Some of my images are technically and compositionally correct, others are not - either on purpose or by accident. But, that IS how I want to tell my stories because one without the other is merely  an excerpt, not a story.