Capturing Life -- One Shot at a Time
I DID post two posts on romantic crap. Thanks Ravin, for pointing it out.
These past two weeks, days, hours have been crazy hectic, with me wrapping up my summer courses, preparing for a final exam, visiting family friends after 2 years of mundane excuses such as "too busy with senior year of high school" or "first year of college courses take up all my time". Well, they weren't really excuses. It was a fact! So after two years of self-grounding myself in my work and my friends, I decided to go out and re-mingle with the crowds this summer.
And it's been more than great. As for the blogosphere, I'll pop in from time to time to comment and let you know I'm alive and doing well.
As I might have already mentioned, I've been photoblogging a lot lately. I've met some GREAT amateur as well as professional photographers online, by looking and commenting on their work and having them comment on mine. And the best part is that there are college kids my age out there into photography, who do it not for a living, but simply to document their lives or to sharpen their visual and creative perspectives. Here, I've learnt a lot of things. For one, there are a bazillion techniques and art forms within photography itself, which I would have never known by simply clicking family vacation photos and printing them out to keep them as memories. Also, after re-kindling my passion for photography, I've started looking at things around me in a different light. Every tiny thing that goes unnoticed seems like the most beautiful and extraordinary thing created by nature or by man. I look down a street and I picture it as a photograph, as a moment frozen in time, something everlasting. Now, something breath-taking is not just a sunset, a sunrise or Grand Canyon expanses or a bunch of dandilions. It can be simple droplets on a leaf, a smile caught on film or digitally, or as simple as a feather lying on the ground. I think now I know what people when they say you have to slow down and notice the tiny things in life to wholly know what life itself is all about. Okay, I made that up, but you know what I mean. Right? Photography, or any other form of art is not God-gifted. People are not born with SLR cameras or paintbrushes in their hands. Anyone can develop the creative or the attentive eye. Trust me, you'll enjoy your vacations and vacation shots more than ever before. I might just start documenting my life for myself to look back on one day and recall the day I felt like crap, or the wedding of a friend. And my upcoming birthday seems like the opportune moment too. It's great I tell you. Maybe a passing phase, an addiction that won't last for over a month, but I tell you... even if it's fleeting, it's worth it.
Have a lovely Thursday evening!
These past two weeks, days, hours have been crazy hectic, with me wrapping up my summer courses, preparing for a final exam, visiting family friends after 2 years of mundane excuses such as "too busy with senior year of high school" or "first year of college courses take up all my time". Well, they weren't really excuses. It was a fact! So after two years of self-grounding myself in my work and my friends, I decided to go out and re-mingle with the crowds this summer.
And it's been more than great. As for the blogosphere, I'll pop in from time to time to comment and let you know I'm alive and doing well.
As I might have already mentioned, I've been photoblogging a lot lately. I've met some GREAT amateur as well as professional photographers online, by looking and commenting on their work and having them comment on mine. And the best part is that there are college kids my age out there into photography, who do it not for a living, but simply to document their lives or to sharpen their visual and creative perspectives. Here, I've learnt a lot of things. For one, there are a bazillion techniques and art forms within photography itself, which I would have never known by simply clicking family vacation photos and printing them out to keep them as memories. Also, after re-kindling my passion for photography, I've started looking at things around me in a different light. Every tiny thing that goes unnoticed seems like the most beautiful and extraordinary thing created by nature or by man. I look down a street and I picture it as a photograph, as a moment frozen in time, something everlasting. Now, something breath-taking is not just a sunset, a sunrise or Grand Canyon expanses or a bunch of dandilions. It can be simple droplets on a leaf, a smile caught on film or digitally, or as simple as a feather lying on the ground. I think now I know what people when they say you have to slow down and notice the tiny things in life to wholly know what life itself is all about. Okay, I made that up, but you know what I mean. Right? Photography, or any other form of art is not God-gifted. People are not born with SLR cameras or paintbrushes in their hands. Anyone can develop the creative or the attentive eye. Trust me, you'll enjoy your vacations and vacation shots more than ever before. I might just start documenting my life for myself to look back on one day and recall the day I felt like crap, or the wedding of a friend. And my upcoming birthday seems like the opportune moment too. It's great I tell you. Maybe a passing phase, an addiction that won't last for over a month, but I tell you... even if it's fleeting, it's worth it.
Have a lovely Thursday evening!
