Photography in my perspective...Ü

My fondness and love for photography actually started when my parents gave me a digital camera when i graduated from high school, and that was four years ago. Owning such gadget then was quiet a privilege to me since having one would definitely make you a stand-out since only few can afford to own a digital camera. But there's something more beyond that superficial privilege, because having that gadget earned me to have love for photography. I know that i am such a sentimental person, that's why as much as possible i'd like to capture the best moments in my life. But, there's much more than just having simple flick of a cam, and that is exploring the beauty of any thing that is worth to be captured. But for me, in a much deeper sense of photography, taking pictures would also mean as 'an act to unravel hidden and explicit emotions and meanings'.

I believe that there are things that are very significant but because of the vastness of our milliue, we tend to ignore those that are important. That's why photography will help you to value things around you. It can be a tool to find the right focus of any subjects. And with that focus, you can surely discover and eventually appreciate its existence and its significant meaning.

These thoughts my perspective of photography - something beyond the ordinary click of a camera.

I have always wanted to enroll myself in a seminar/workshop that tackles photography. However, because of academic responsibilities as a college student, i never had the chance. But now that i am a graduate, i am planning to attend weekend sessions for photography classes after i have settled myself for a job. Practicing photography is quite expensive, the gadget itself will automatically cost you thousands of bucks, and of course one should spare a part from his allowance or salary for workshop fees or payments. Taking it as a hobby is already expensive, and taking up a few steps for the professional field will definitely create a hole to one's pocket. Because it would require you to have other equipments like lights, tripod, additional lenses and etc. And this is what i have recently realized, 'money = education'. This goes to say that in order to gain impressive education, money should come first as a priority. This has been the prerequisite to anyone who would like to avail a good education. And i really admire those people who really struggles just to achieve this level of profession in photography or in any profession.

Though money has been the first mode and a first step to any goal, however, at the end of the day, 'skills, passion and perseverance' will always be the key to achieve our goals, even if they seem to be elusive at first, there is no such thing that these three can't conquer...

Photography would probably one of the oldest art, from which you can see its continuous development from the equipments itself, and most of all from the pictures where good memories and ideas were imbued and reflected. Moments are meant to be captured and to be reminisced, either they are something that draws a smile from our lips or something that pauses us from sadness and melancholy. But no matter how they were captured, the important thing is, we were able to reflect from that actions and of course, appreciate its beauty and glory unfaded by years passed.