Ikatlong Banat: Flickristas Shoot 8

Inspired by a friend, I started taking photographs just using my cameraphone long time ago. A month ago, I bought my first DSLR camera.

I am so happy, ecstatically happy being my photo included in the exhibit. A feeling of fulfillment as an amateur (or as a friend said to me "frustrated") photographer.

Anyway, it won't stop there. I'm very willing to learn more things about photography.

A friend told me that she thinks that photographers are pathetic, with that big gadget always with them and all. Actually, I kind of forgot her reasons why they are pathetic because while she is telling me all these reasons, my mind is racing with how I will answer to it. I told her that for me, photography is art. It's like painting a picture, instead using paints, brush and canvas, photographers use camera, lens, film and photo paper. Like painters, photographers make their own masterpieces by capturing finest moments, peoples' emotions, landscapes of grandeur, beautiful ways of Mother Nature. Painters and photographers are not different from each other. Sharing their feelings through their own ways of art. she just answered "So you're answering for them? Or you feel like you're one of them?". I just smiled. Maybe I can be one of them, maybe I can capture these "works of art" and share it to the world. I just had my first step. My photo is in the Flickrista Shoots Eight Exhibit.



This is my photo entry in the exhibit. Although it didn't win, I am still happy that my photo is included in the exhibit. But most of all, my family visited the exhibit and they love my photo (they even thought that I have a chance of winning the prize). Being appreciated by my family in all of my endeavors makes me feel that the world appreciated my work.