Special to Young Bucks Outdoors

Halee Burdeshaw, a ninth grader at Arnold High School in Panama City Beach, Fla., loves the outdoors and likes to shoot things: trees, animals, bodies of water and people. Her choice of weapon? A digital camera.
 
Halee discovered her aptitude for outdoor photography about a year ago when she received her first digital camera as a gift. Her grandfather, Phillip Burdeshaw Sr., made sure she got a newer and more advanced camera for her birthday.
 
She has many opportunities to capture images of the things and animals that catch her attention because her family spends a lot of time outdoors camping and fishing. She says she enjoys the freedom of taking photos of subjects that she sees in the way that she sees them. "No one can tell me how to do it."
 
Patience is a virtue for outdoor photographers, and it's also something Halee has to have as a student. "I can't take photography classes until the 10th grade," she said, "even though I would like to do that now."
 
While she's waiting, she'll be taking more photos. "I like taking photos of people just as much."

She wants to see how far her interest in outdoor photography will take her. "I would like to major in business, too." A photography business, one operated with a friend, is at the top of her list of future plans, as well as finding a summer job with a photographer or studio.