Thursday, May 28, 2009

The Beginning

no experience... no formal training... yet an aspiring photographer with an amateur camera.

Photos have impacted me in ways other forms of journalism have yet to effect me. A picture can move someone, can transport someone into that image, can explain something in one moment, when it's worth a thousand words.

My goal is to take a picture everyday of my life. Whether the picture is of something as mundane as my room, or something as exciting as a life-changing moment, a world-changing event, or a split-second when the world stands still.
I hope that through this, I can learn through my experience and become a better photographer each day. I want to capture everything in my life that is important to me: my family, friends, traveling, fashion, school, work, people I run into randomly or everyday, etc. This is also going to be a test to myself, to see if I can be dedicated, committed and consistent with this blog... and see it through until the end. I don't care if one person sees this one time, or if a million people follow it everyday. I need to prove to myself that I can do this, whether the pictures are craptastic or worthy of a Pulitzer prize.

The pictures won't have a theme, except one: my life. The pictures will vary each day, depending on what mood I'm in, what sums up the day the best, or if I only took one picture. It will be random, portraying different things in my life that interest me, whether it's an outfit that I envy, or if it's pure joy, sadness or ecstasy on the face of a stranger.

This project will force me to leave this comfortable bubble my life has made; contributed by suburbia, a university campus, and - let's face it - ignorance. Through this project, I hope to become cultured, aware and knowledgeable.

And so this journey begins.



Join me.

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