When I first started my blog, I wanted to be one of those bloggers who blogged a lot. I wanted this Tumblr page to be a record of my personal journey into photography, like a diary I could look back on from time to time. I wanted it to be filled with photos that contained stories of my everyday, from the things I was thinking of to the things I was up to and doing. I have been doing that lately and I really love it even if at the end of day, I’m not even sure if anybody really cared.
When I first started into photography, I wasn’t sure what to make of blogging on a regular basis would do. I wondered what would be interesting enough for me to write about, but as I venture into the world, I feel as though I can discover a lot of things that will inspire me to write and take pictures.
These past few months were one of those months that I feel like I’m starting to make things happen for myself slowly by slowly. I get paid for doing what I love which is photography and make up, occassionally. I’m just eighteen, nearly nineteen and I get to earn my own money little by little, an amount enough to spend on the things I want to buy for myself. This makes me happy because I finally figured out what to do with the talent I believe God gave me, which makes me and my parents’ proud.
Nonetheless, eventhough I get to earn an enough amount of money, I do not consider myself as a professional photographer or a photographer, even. I feel like I’m just a photo hobbyist who just wings it all the time but is lucky enough to get good pictures that people find satisfying.
Photography for me is really personal because most of my works are from all of my trips anywhere, from random mall trips to my out of the country travels. It’s more of me being out there, experiencing the world like I belong, seeing and documenting that.
I’m just really happy that I finally get to start on my career, achieving little things that will lead me to great ones. I finally had that self-actualization about the things I want to do and continue doing. I’ve been taking pictures for a long time now and I’m not getting tired of it. It’s like the world never runs out of beautiful things to capture that ignites my purpose, passion and motivation towards achieving good pictures.
If I could, I want to live life frame by frame. If I could, I’d bring my camera anywhere, take pictures of all those beautiful things I can see and capture moments people will forever remember. Because that is what photography is supposed to be about: appreciating and re-living things time cannot do. :-)
