Never Forget

Looking back there are lots of memories to remember... it's good to be reminded again once awhile


looking back... it has already been around 2-3 years since I've started getting a little serious in picture taking, still nothing spectacular yet... but still I'm still doing my best, but I think I'm straying off from what got me started...

When you take a picture, what's your main goal?? Is it to impress others?? to have a chance to go out with girls?? To create memories?? Or maybe just a passion that's inside you wanting to burst out~?? there's many ways to express how you are with your camera~

Looking back at my old pictures I'm once again reminded of what made me so excited, and how fun it was taking pictures...
till I went all the way to Masjid Jamek to take pictures of almost anything under the blazing sun...

wandering around a drain to capture a guy's emo message... I think he committed suicide??
Got lost around masjid jamek area till I found unique buildings...
a little urban area... etc...
flagpole at dataran merdeka....

at that moment I guess I was crazy with taking pictures, till I just couldn't care less what to photograph just as long as it comes to a moment of capturing a nice picture to keep as a memory...
Like capturing a picture of granny's dog which was hiding from the camera~ XD
or even running low into the bushes to spend time taking pictures of a red ant's nest and getting in awe by the beauty of it...
Taking pictures of random kittens to bring an Awwww to people's face...
bringing the camera to even grandma's house to capture her kitty...
But there was a time where I became adventurous and stupid when I agreed to climb up the abandoned flats of err donno how to spell it with Elly to the top, not even thinking twice of the risks that was involved because it was just the two of us...
But at the rooftop it became a rather interesting memory, but thank God nothing bad happened O.O
Then went to areas of trying out new techniques of the camera by experimenting it with the moving LRT at night...
Creating ghostly images with friends by accident but soon became a memorable amount of fun
copying ideas from others and making it personal...
Finding every opportunity to create an interesting image or portrait for us to keep and remember...
being brave enough to try stuff that you do not know would succeed or not... I just did it...
bringing out the full use of the camera's capabilities too was a new challenge that became really fun..
getting ideas from others, and using it to create something that you can impress others with, making it something fun that everyone can laugh at just with a bit extra work in photoshop...
capturing lifestyles of how fun life can be... but it may piss off a shark ~~ =)
Then came the recent opening of the door to portrait photography where I've begun learning about taking pictures of one of the hardest things which are people...

But really by looking back one can really tell how much one has grown throughout those times, I still do not consider myself a professional, but I can tell that I have improved, I still do not consider myself to be the best, but whenever given the chance I still try and give it my best...

But recently I guess I have been losing out in the passion... it's when your passion is taken over by people requesting you to take pictures, not taking those that you like, that you begin to mellow down and try to keep a low profile, that when someone asks you to take pictures for them you begin to brush them off asking someone else to do it... trying not to stand out, and by then you begin to bring the camera out less...

was it bad?? At first I never thought it to be... but after looking back at my old pictures... I guess it was bad to start to put down that which made me happy, that which drove me crazy then, spending countless hours just reading and learning new photography things, editing pictures, etc...

I guess I've lost it for a moment.... and I fell bad about it... so I've learn to never let the work overtake the passion you've once had, if people use you, let them, but never give up doing what you like...

And..... well I guess it has been a long time, but it's time to go crazy again and go out taking random pictures yet again~ to never be ashamed of whipping out the big camera and snapping literally almost anything and everything...

so an advice to everyone else out there, you might be good, you might be a professional... but never forget that which drives you... passion =)

Keep it up~~ =]