It wasn’t until she started high school, however, that she started to experiment with film photography, taking images of the Moon, stars, and planets through her telescope. “I was so excited to see something that showed up on the film,” she says. Although, using film posed some problems. “A lot of times the developers would give me my roll back and say, ‘oh there is nothing on the pictures’,” she says. “So they were cutting the rolls right through my astronomy photos, because they couldn’t see that there were tiny little stars on them. So I said, ‘don’t cut the rolls, there’s something there, I promise!’