i shoot you!

yesterday tomorrow, there's no longer the "wa-ness" in owning a dslr. walk on the streets and you won't be surprise to find teens as young as 14 years of age have one hanging around their necks. More and more peeps are being exposed to photography and many made it their careers or their serious hobby.

if it was yesterday, i would say , being an amateur myself, i am learning hard to shoot, i am seeking my style and i dare not show my photographs without filtering it again and again. making sure that they aren't lousy shots. i compare my shots with others and i try to imitate certain style and angle. i tried to make it a serious hobby, building my passion in it. though reading bout the words are ....somehow, confusing....

but then, if you ask me now, what do i really like about snapping photos? i realized, the things i like about shooting didn't have anything to do with skills or techniques, dslr or compact camera...i just like shooting....

i likeeeeeee simply shooting in all different weird angles which when i review the pictures, i get to see things in a different way.
i can't turn my eyes upside down, but i can always turn Conor's eye upside down!

i likeeeeeeeee taking random shots of people and make them laugh from the silly shots i make them pose.
and so when people look back at the photos, they remember the silly things they do...

i like clicking away again and again, just to listen to the "cik cak" sound. ahh~~ because its just soooo nice~~and it made my hands so itchy that its always tempting me to just click it again.

i likeeeeeeee having a thousand photos that packed up all the space in my computer that it makes it so lag and load so slow, just so i can see the moment again, like reading a storybook with lotsa colours and little words, as the many photos combine to form a video.

maybe the photos i took, its out of proportion, there ain't any focus in this picture, lacking of strong contrast...and yada yada..
but i realize, i don't like taking photos in a right angled frame, i love things in weird proportion, i don't like to plan my photo, i don't like adjusting the light for hours just to get the "theoretically" good shot, and i am extremely lazy to edit my name into every photos i take, because i just have one too many...i don't like to think whether i'm doing the right thing or not, whether the photos are overexposed or underexposed...


and to be honest,
i know nothing at all about techniques or skills,
in fact, i don't even know what "DSLR" stands for,
i've heard it many times, but i just can't seem to remember.
hmm...mayb even my subconscious realize that its not always about learning and trying hard to study about it like you're taking a course. its about simply doing what you want to do just because you feel like doing it.


sometimes i feel i take things too seriously. almost everything i'm interested in. whether if its sports, hobbies, traveling, art, video, photography, food, computer, studies, music. seriously i feel like learning everything! and if i were to learn, i expect myself to excel...

but maybe this time, photography ain't in the field of learning, just like music,
maybe this time, its about simply enjoying and clicking away.
i don't have to be good in it, i just have to be happy while doing it.

so, canon, don't be sad, i love you just as much as i love conor. =) though you don't know how to sing cik cak cik cak, but you're much much lighter than conor. so don't worry, i won't abandon you..^^

weeeeeeeeeee~~~~~~~~~~~