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Why did I start photography?

tl;dr: guy doodled, guy dropped doodling; guy got camera, guy began photography; guy like people photography

It all started with kid doodles. When I was little, I used to take those math booklets (plain front and back, roughly 100 pages / booklet, for math calculation purposes) as my drawing books. I still remember my collection of BB Gundam drawings, and to this day, they are still buried somewhere in the drawers back home.

Then high school started, and I began drifting away from drawing. Why? I don’t know. Perhaps it’s school, or perhaps I just discovered other hobbies that kept me occupied. Whatever the reason was, after so many years, I still have a tough time figuring out what exactly it is that made me stop drawing. I even remember taking drawing classes for a short while because I wanted to get better at it, but I never followed through.

As I move away from home and began another journey in my life, visual art has practically escaped me for the longest time. Sure, I still took pictures every now and then, but by no means I was pursuing “art” out of my photographs. It wasn’t till perhaps half way through my undergrad years that I wanted to experiment photography, that I bought a Canon s80, IMO a quite high quality P&S camera at the time.

After many months of self learning and my expanding interests in photography, I realized that although the s80 was quite high end, I needed something more than a P&S to expand my horizon. Fast forwarding to about  a couple years ago, I started my research on DSLR, and eventually bought the Canon 40D, the camera that I am currently using, right before my wedding.

And today, here I am.

What exactly is it that attracts me to photography though? Subject-wise, I really wanted to do people photography. I fancy those who get to do street photography, taking candid shots of everyday people. I want to capture the beauty of everyday people. But as far as I know, people don’t exactly like “paparazzi” taking pictures of them, especially when it is a complete stranger. As I already knew about Sakura Con then, I realized that “hey, people-who-dress-up-generally-like-to-have-their-pictures-taken + I-like-people-photography = yay”, cosplay photography began its influence on me.

The rest? It’s all history. For now, I want to thank TWTS for giving me an opportunity to experiment fashion / glamour photography, and to all those who like my photographs.