#7043 Today is the day Im quitting photography. Im a photographer by blood, my fathers a photographer and his father is a photographer. But today Im quitting. I started photography not because of genetics, I took pictures because I wanted to capture all the beautiful and wonderful moments in life. Ive been doing photography all my life but only started taking it seriously in 10th grade, after I gave my friend a photo album for her birthday and saw how happy pictures could make people. Ive spent a fortune on cameras and gear these past few years, joined the photography club in high school and was made the official school photographer. Once I got to university, I joined several clubs and worked for The Peak. But one things always been the same, Ive always been the one behind the camera, never in front. I never really realized this, until I graduated and my cousins wanted to see pictures of me in high school, and on my graduation day, and prom. Then I realized I didnt have any. I started photography to make others happy, but I got so caught up, I neglected to realize that I would never be remembered. My existence in highschool was equivalent to a camera, there was no proof I had friends, was in any clubs, etc. I didnt have any pictures of myself in the yearbook or the graduation video, because I took all the pictures. I cried when I realized this, because I felt betrayed. I was so caught up in making others happy, my friends, much less myself, didnt even realize that I was being left out. Im quitting because I dont want to be wallflower, the photographer, the shadow that fades in the background anymore. I loved photography at the very beginning because it could freeze moments of time, and save them forever. All the memories I have in highschool of myself, is me taking photos of other people having fun, and spending night after night doing post production. And I cant do this anymore. Please appreciate the person behind the camera, who gets left out when they take your group photos, who gets left out when they take pictures of you having fun. Who never gets asked to join in the picture.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 03:22:28 +0000
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