Austin Janavs was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He has been practicing photography since the age of 11 years old and has avidly been pursuing this medium along with other outlets. His background started with the basics of shooting and developing 35mm black and white film before stepping up to DSLR cameras. After mastering applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, his interests branched out to design and photo manipulation. Austin currently attends University Oregon as an Advertising Major in the School of Journalism and Communication. In his free time, he can be found golfing and working on cars.