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• I electrocuted myself taking apart my first camera—a blue Fisher Price film camera that looked innocent enough but had a flash capacitor that packed a serious punch—when I was around ten-years-old. (I really wanted to know how it worked)
• I tested out of high school when I was fifteen-years-old, got my GED, and entered the workforce shortly after. I've sold cars, been a mechanic, programmed robots and plastic injection machines, and mixed and color-matched Benjamin Moore paints and Cabot stains at a small ACE hardware store in Norwich, Vermont. I also worked in a very stressful office at a mortgage servicing company after graduating from UNH and before I ultimately decided to start my own business and pursue my dream as a professional photographer
• I graduated from River Valley Community College in Claremont with an Associate of Arts degree in May 2015 before transferring to the University of New Hampshire
• I'm allergic to bees and petrified of yellow jackets and bald-faced hornets
• I broke my left elbow when I tripped over a wire fence while I was working on an archaeological dig on the seacoast for a summer internship during my final year of undergrad
• I was an elected board member for the Arrowhead Recreation Club, a non-profit organization in Claremont, for two terms (2022-2024)
• I'm a cat person but love all animals. My cats' names are Moe, Stella, and Giuseppe. My late tuxedo cat Leia was my soulmate, and I still think about her every day
• I have two scholarly articles published in the University of New Hampshire's academic journal, SPECTRUM: 1) "Energy, Technology, and Culture: The Paris Agreement, Social Conflict, and Cultural Evolution" and 2) "The Value of the Dead: The Commodification of Corpses in Western Culture"
• My favorite TV series of all time is Mad Men (thanks to my cousin Tom for recommending that one)
• I prefer mountains over the ocean and the woods over cities, but I appreciate all four
• My favorite car manufacturers are Saab (RIP), Honda, and Volvo, but I love most anything with an engine or motor. To date, I have owned fourteen Saabs (mostly c900 turbos and SPGs), an Acura Integra (DC2) with a high compression engine that I built, and a mostly stock, low-mileage Honda Fit Sport with a 5-speed manual transmission. JDM and European vehicles are my favorite, especially from the late 1970s - Early 2000s (i.e., the "Radwood" era)
• My maternal grandfather, Charlie St. Sauveur, started a Saab dealership (Dean Hill Motors in Charlestown, NH) in the 1960s
• I played trumpet and tuba in middle and high school band
• I chew toothpicks when I'm nervous, which is pretty often. I smoked cigarettes for many years and quit cold turkey in February of 2022; toothpicks helped
• I'm currently single and do not have any children. I honestly don't have the energy to date and enjoy my independence (I'm a bit of a hermit)
• I lived in a residence hall at UNH that was reserved for international, graduate, post-graduate, and non-traditional students that were 21 and over. I met and befriended so many fascinating people from all over the world—Pakistan, Brazil, Iran, China, Ukraine, Russia, Ireland, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Amsterdam, Germany, France, you name it—while I was there. I miss my Babcock family
• I like poetry (Sylvia Plath is my favorite)
• I love spending time in the woods and would have gotten along well with Henry David Thoreau and the other transcendentalists
• I have an amazing mother and older sister who mean the world to me and have helped make my dreams in life possible
• I attended the 2011 Boston Bruins Stanley Cup parade in Boston, Massachusetts and it was one of the greatest days of my life
• My favorite season is Spring. I look forward to April and May every year and wish they lasted longer
• I love a good IPA but will never turn down a PBR
• I miss my mémère very much. She was an incredible woman who was like a second mother to me, and she made the best crêpes and tourtière pie in the world
• My favorite bands and musicians include Slothrust, Tool, System of A Down, Modest Mouse, mewithoutYou, Deer Tick, Andrew Bird, Chopin, Primus and all of Les Claypool’s side acts, The Talking Heads, Steely Dan, Gregory Alan Isakov, David Bowie, This Is The Kit, Pink Floyd, Sublime, Japanese Breakfast, Noah Kahan, Ben Folds, Metallica, Mac Miller... the list goes on
• Technically, my first published photographs came from the first digital camera I bought: a $400 (circa 2003), 3.2 megapixel Fujifilm point-and-shoot that was ugly as all hell and lacked the ability to shoot in RAW or control anything manually. Still, I brought that silver monstrosity everywhere and took thousands of photos with it, particularly at Saab events, before handing it down to my mother who also took many photos with it. I now shoot with a Nikon Z8, Nikon Zf, and Sony A7 III, but I briefly flirted with a Canon DSLR before that
• I love hanging out in sugar houses during maple sugaring season when the sap starts to run from the trees
• Patrice Bergeron is the best athlete who has ever lived and there is nothing you could say that could change my mind
• Sometimes the sun and bright lights make me sneeze, which is apparently a genetic mutation called the photic sneeze reflex
• I modified an old Xbox into a fully functional web server running Linux and my own website when I was thirteen; it still played video games as well
• I have a phenomenal therapist who specializes in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and I would not be where I am today without her (thank you, Phoebe!)
• I root against the UNH men's hockey team whenever they play Dartmouth College because I grew up going to games at the Thompson Arena in Hanover, NH. Go Big Green!
• Some of my favorite animals (besides cats, dogs, and people) include loons, cows, moose, deer, squirrels, mountain lions, honey and bumble bees, and pileated woodpeckers
• I broke both my wrists at the same time when I was thirteen; it was my first time snowboarding (I grew up skiing)