Photography

Life is full of precious moments, so why let them slip away and be forgotten? I know that personally, even if I tell myself to remember something, it's quite unlikely that I'll be able to recall it easily. There's so much to learn and so many things to cherish in life that memories and written accounts hardly do justice.

            The phrase 'a picture is worth a thousand words' is something that I truly believe in and have tried to take up so I can remember all the beautiful places I've been and the amazing people I've met. That being said, you might guess that I travel a lot but the truth is I've only been out of state several times and mostly when I was much younger. Photography is about finding beauty in everything, even the most unusual of places. Sometimes it's not even the object or scene that is extraordinary, but the way that it's captured or the story that it portrays. Just like writing, drawing, sculpting, and much more, photography is no doubt an art. To capture what you want and possibly capture something somebody would want to buy takes time, practice, and effort.

            Right now photography is mostly a personal hobby that I take up in the summer and whenever I have free time, but if I get good and my future allows, I may like to get involved professionally. Photo shoots and getting hired for events doesn't sound very appealing, but I'd love to always have my camera on me and capture whatever I see around me. Nature and animals have always been my passion, and getting a good shot of a landscape or something going about its daily life is always rewarding. Getting pictures alone isn't always enough though it seems, and I've always had respect for the people who have the time and energy to scrapbook and organize their pictures and trips. Hopefully sometime I'll be able to do this or make a career or something of the sort out of it and go into photojournalism.

            So many choices. I'd just love to be one of those people who have made what they love into their career. If I'm not so fortunate, I still believe photography will have it's place in my life.