So lately I was thinking about picking up a new hobby, something new to learn, preoccupy my time, but something that I could do while I was doing one of my other hobbies. Then it hit me: photography. It may seem that I am just trying to emulate the recently graduated Subodh Kolla, yet the more I think about why I want to pick up photography the more I realize that I have been wanting to do this for longer than I thought.
I think it all started back freshman year of high school, when we had an art contest held for our school. My friend Chris Cortes wrote, played, and recorded his own music for the music category (which he won first, second, and third place since there was no competitor), a few people painted (which I have no talent for), and the third category was photography. Upon hearing this I went out and bought a Sony Cybershot 5 megapixel (which was big for its time) and figured, "how hard could this be." I had my mom drive me to the beach the next day, took a picture of the surf and thought, "hey maybe i'll win it." After I took the pic, I realized the lightening was terrible, and the picture, when blown up became extremely pixelated. Obviously, I had lost the competition, my picture probably thrown out and laughed out. This may have discouraged me from taking my camera out and about for the next few years.
Throughout high school, and mostly into my college career, I was exposed to more and more photography, mostly through Bo, Shy's stepmom Wendy and somewhat through David Wagner, and Subodh. My view on photography completely changed when I went up to Monterey and Wendy gave me a calender of the pictures she had taken from the previous year. The photos truely amazed me and I realized that an actual physical picture can mean a lot, more than just a mental image.
So we'll see where if I end up actually picking photography up and see if I enjoy it.
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