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how i started shooting!
eversince i was a little kid, i have always been hooked on the arts. i remember browsing the volumes of enclopedia at home just looking at the pictures of portraits from the great masters. at a very young age, i met picasso, leonardo da vinci, michaelangelo, van gogh among others. but i must confess, i am a frustrated painter. i have the vision, yet my hands can’t translate such vision on canvass. yes, the passion is in me yet the skills are not there. i remember going home depressed from my art classes coz my works usually get low grades. until one day, i just gave up and accepted the fact that painting is really not for me.
however, i was thankful though that my appreciation for the arts remained in me. i would still visit museum and 
exhibits and marvel at the paintings of juan luna, fernando amorsolo, felix hidalgo, among others (when i get filthy rich, i promise to buy one of those luna’s paintings. argh!!!). and in one of those visits, there it was, a collection of beautiful photographs. i could not exactly recall whose photographs it was being exhibited. but it sent chills to my body. i remember being so excited jumping from one photograph to another. and at the end of the last frame, it occured to me, "i could be an artist after all!". it took years though before i was finally able to get a hold of a camera. at 17 years old when digital photography does not yet exists, when your idea of photography is having your own darkroom and those big cameras, you are made to believe, photography is only for grown ups.
it was through my friend ron that finally made me decide to take pictures. i was envious of the photographs he was taking. so i bought a camera and started taking my own pictures. started with point and shoot and then a year after, with a dslr. now with just a click of the shutter button one can produce his masterpiece. a great alternative for people who wants to paint but cannot. instead of holding a brush and paints, one holds the camera.
how about you? what’s your frustration?
