about
J Danielle Wehunt-Millwood
Let me first say… I am NOT Ella Rue. Ella Rue is not even a person that I know. On a quick whim, it was the name I chose for my photography persona. Ironically, it just so happens to be both my maternal great-great grandmothers names (not known to me until one year after the name choice). For that alone, I think it’s a keeper. You can call me Ella. I’ll answer. But I go by Danielle… and Deshack, D, Doodlebug, Baby, Tante, Jenni, JenJen, JeniDan, and any other name you can throw at me. I’ll literally answer to any voice that is audible in my direction. Just dont call me Daniel. I am not now, nor have I ever been a boy. Boys are stinky and make messes.
What does one say about themself?
I was born in 1982 in the small town of Atlanta, GA. Within 27 years, I’ve probably moved a total of 100 miles. My mother claims that I enjoyed eating veggies as my first solid foods. This has yet to be proven. As a small child, I was a creative little squirt that constantly made messes and wreaked havoc on toys and valuable antiques. I harbored an intense love for my Grandmothers miniature brass tea set. I grew up wanting to become an architect, but when I reached an age of reasoning, I realized that my incredible lack of mathematic skills would prevent this from ever happening. I still continued to draw outlandish blueprints on notebook paper throughout my teen years, but set my realistic goals on becoming a singer/songwriter/fashiondesigner/model. When a modeling agency alerted me to the size of my nose and (at the time) teen acne, I realized yet another dream would be stifled. It wasn’t until I was unemployed for a brief 6 month period in 2001 that I realized my love for photography. I spent a considerable amount of time searching used book stores for any books written about photography. Although I’m sure some of these books made sense to someone, they might as well have been Japanese to me. I figured I would never be able to grasp that technical side of photography due to my numerical dyslexia disease. So I let that dream burn low for a while… Well, in 2006, after having a gargantuan revelation about my dissatisfaction in working “for the man”, I decided to go to back to school. I took my butt up to Gwinnett Technical College and enrolled myself in Commercial Photography. 2 years later, in September 2008, after more blood, sweat, tears and money than I ever thought possible, I marched my weary yet excited bones from the building holding my God-blessed degree. It was one of the hardest, but most awesome things I’ve ever done. I celebrated by marrying my best friend, Benjamin, a month later! We live near Lake Lanier with our two needy but cuddly Shih Tzu’s, Molly and Chipper. On an average day, you can find us folding laundry or doing dishes. I’m not your typical photographer. In fact, I’m not your typical gal. I march to the beat of a different drummer… and that’s how I like it.
In my spare time, I currently enjoy the following:
♡Cartwheels
♡Sleeping
♡Stream mopping my hardwood floors
♡Dreaming of having more Shih Tzu puppies
♡Reading trashy romance novels
♡Watching my waist line
♡Partaking in water aerobics with the 50 & up crowd at the local aquatic center
