Photography

Something that I’ve been interested in for ages besides music, is photography. I don’t know, there’s just something about the way how a picture can tell a story.  To be able to just look at a picture and tell a person about a great time, I find it in itself very funny. I love it though. The feeling that you get when you capture a great moment, up to when you produce the final piece, it’s amazing!

I didn’t really start taking photography serious until this year February, but photos have always been an important part of my life. Like music, photo’s are another love that I believe that me and my mother shared. It’s like everyday I find a new reason as to why we are very much like twins, the most obvious being that I look a lot like her. It took a while to see it though. Something about not being able to see your own resemblance as quickly as others, made it hard for me to see how much we look like each other. I get it all that time, practically everyday, people who knew my mother are forever telling me that when they look at me it’s like looking right at her. But I couldn’t see it and this is when I realised the beauty of pictures. My Mother was forever taking pictures. I can literally tell my life through them. For example, if you were to ask me if I had ever been to Disneyland Florida, I would tell you no because from my memory I haven’t. However, there are plenty of pictures telling me the opposite. I can literally tell you who I went with, what we did, where we stayed because of pictures.

Now I know I’m not the only one with this kind of experience. I am definitely not the only one with a Mother who had albums on top of albums! Albums even containing pictures of people I don’t even know, which is slyly a problem seeing as I have all of them now. Lol. It’s through these pictures that I really realised the resemblance. Someone took a picture of me and some friends one year, and in this picture I’ve got this huge grin on my face. When I first saw that picture properly it was Facebook, and looking at it like all those people, I didn’t even see me. For a good while, all I saw was my Mum. That happened a second time, and every time I think about it I just laugh. Like if it wasn’t for pictures I wouldn’t have been able to see that. The power of pictures. It’s amazing.

About two years ago however, I took over the running of my church’s youth pages. As well as this, I started taking pictures at the youth events to post on the social’s. I didn’t have my own camera though so I had to use my friends. I loved the feel of having the use of that camera, and to be honest, it’s what really pushed me to get my own. So February 18th 2017, I purchased my own DSLR for my birthday. Well if I’m honest, my parents gave me the money and I was lucky enough to find a good camera for an amazing price. Let me tell you something when your buying something like that, don’t just look in one place. You’d be surprised out how much prices can vary depending on where you look, and yes that includes Ebay. Since then, I’ve been practicing on friends to get better. I even made an Instagram account  where I post my best ones. So far it’s going well and I’m enjoying every minute of it. I can’t lie the editing part is the worst, but when it’s done and I see people using my pictures, the feeling is amazing! Something I definitely don’t want to stop. Right now it’s just something to do on the side of my studies, but who knows where it could take me?

I cannot wait to take my camera with me on holidays with me. The shots I could take! I have a bucket list that I cannot wait to complete. Right now though it’s getting longer by the second and nothings getting crossed off. The joys of being a student! One day though, I will be crossing of the last thing on that list, if there can be a last thing, because everyday I seem to find something else to add. Something new that I want to discover. This world is full of so many amazing things to do, it’s just getting out there to actually go and do them that I currently struggle with. I’m saving though and one day I will get there.

At the moment though, I will happily settle with taking pictures of the people around me. That’s what my Instagram is full of. People. I like to capture people in the moment. That’s when I feel like you catch people at their best. The real laughter. That real frown. All captured when people are not so focused on the fact that they’re being photographed, and for me that’s the true beauty of it all. My Instagram page is still in the making, especially as I recently haven’t been able to take as much pictures as I would have liked, but do check it out.

Photos. I’m definitely gonna be like my mother and I’m so here for it!

Instagram: capturesgems_

Church accounts:

Facebook: Bay Side (Balham Adventist Youth)

Instagram: balhambayside

Twitter: BalhamSDAYouth