When I began my photographic journey, it was simply a way to pass the time. I used to be bored of school, bored of work, bored of chores. I used photography as an excuse to escape the redundancies of daily routine, and so it gradually became an integral part of my personality and life.
My first camera was a Nikon D5100. A better quality machine than most, which happened to be quite fortunate for me as I would later discover - compared to some other starter cameras.
Slowly I started getting better - or so I thought at the time - I would shoot a better photo everyday, and without being taught any fundamentals, relied on my intuition and feelings to guide me to better composition, better colours and an overall more thought provoking and interesting photo.
I soon after discovered the art of editing photos, and I do truly believe that it is an art in of itself, and began to experiment with photos in ways I wouldn't have been able to fathom just weeks before.
Since then, I have been increasingly passionate about capturing moments and feelings with simply a camera, and aim to shoot a better shot each day.
Poetry is something I gained a sense for after studying it at school. It was something I did not understand, until I started looking at it from various perspectives, opening my eyes to the true complexities portrayed through words.
Poems had a certain appeal to them that allowed the writer and the reader to relate to the words on the page even if their situations were polar opposites. This beautiful phenomena inspired me to try replicate the uniqueness of each moment, feeling, and thought in my own words and forms.