I took up Photography when my friend Sharon bought a new camera and I used it to photograph her. That was the autumn of 2011. I turned out to be pretty good.

I've asked a couple friends to pose for me since then while I used regular point and shoot cameras to see if Photography was worth pursuing. I didn't know if Sharon was just good at posing, or if I was actually a good photographer. As it turns out, she was good at posing and I'm also pretty good at finding interesting angles for an interesting composition.

I look back to pictures I've taken on a Vancouver and Victoria Trip in 2009. Many of the pictures were interesting too. I've never really took the pictures for photography's sake, I took them for the memories and cataloging the places and things I've seen. So I was suddenly overjoyed that I have a hidden talent! But I dug deep and discovered what I had WASN'T a natural talent at all.

if it wasn't talent, what could it be, you ask?

It was YEARS of being yelled at by my mom. "Nah! You're cutting off my head!" "Hold the camera straight!" "Make me look skinny and tall!" "You have to time it just right!"

I consider myself as a positive person... but in reality, I think I was just a really air-headed kid. I don't know what's going on half the time so I had to develope a keen intuition to adapt. The yellings had no bad intent behind them, so the negativity doesn't sink in. My head was always in the clouds. But subconsciously I absorbed the most important lessons. Yay, Selective Osmosis!"

I have a photographer's eye, but absolutely no technical skills or experience to back it up. Last summer, I've finally was able to weigh out all the pros and cons and justified buying myself a DSLR. I learned all that I can from the internet and from experimenting. And I've been doing it ever since.

Right now, I'm into portrait photography more just because people are more interesting to me... But in Nature's defence, I live in a Hick-Town in the praries, I don't own any telephoto lens, and I'm afraid to get attacked by bears, wolves, and mountain lions if I take pictures in the woods... So my selection of subjet matter is greatly diminished.

Which means there's still a lot of unexplored territory! Yay!