Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Hobby

I barely can't recall the time I got this very exhilarating feeling and a deep drive on pursuing on a hobby. I've been into sports (bowling), crafts, (cross-stitch and crochet) and culinary (baking). But none of these hobbies were financially funded so well and allocated a lot of time for practice so I can earn expertise.

When I was in elementary and high-school, I had completed a number of cross-stitched and crochet projects. All of them were just displayed and used at home. As for the sports I've got familiar with, I was able to hone my skills in bowling and won a couple of awards in our company's bowling tournament. Joined a bowling club at Alabang before but my work schedule hindered my desire to become a pro in bowling. I only play once in a while for now.

Then I was introduced again to baking while I was pregnant with our first child. Some goodies I've baked were posted here and here. I've even started selling my baked goodies and told myself that I'll venture into pastry business someday. But then again, my greatest resource which is time, didn't allow me to prosper and seriously obtain an expertise on baking. I won't tell that I'll forever don't have time for these desires of mine. The timing may not yet be the right one to say the least. The dream of becoming a pastry chef is still at the back of my head.

And here now comes my latest love affair, PHOTOGRAPHY. My passion in photography started when I acquired my first digital (and only one) camera in 2001. I was very proud to have the first 2.1MP Sony Cybershot digital camera in the office at that time. When we ruled out that my P50 needs retiring after a good 4 years of capturing memories, Marvin upgraded it to SONY-DSC R1 just last year after our first child was born. We're still apprehensive on jumping directly into DSLR cameras because we'll not make a business of taking photos anyway. So Sony R1, being a semi-DSLR is just a perfect practice camera for enthusiasts like us and it was indeed.

Now after a thousand photos practiced with R1, knowledge gained as an apprentice self-studying photography and its tools and being dearly inspired by a lot of photographers and their work posted I've browsed online, I've decided to slowly shift my career to my hobby which is photography and and someday be the best photographer that I can be. There's no harm in dreaming big. I remember clearly how our high school English teacher would always keep on telling us while climbing on top of a chair and extend her hands while saying, "Reach for the Stars!!!"

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