my first camera.

for my 6th birthday, i opened my present from my mother,
to find this brick-looking object that took pictures.
my first camera.
it had a roll of film and a lanyard sort of string to carry it around my neck.
i put love heart stickers on it and took it everywhere.

that was when i fell in love with taking photos.
back then, of course the photos were mostly of grass and flowers.
i took a lot of photos of my pet bunny rabbits, most of them were blurry and terrible.
but i loved it.

for my 10th birthday, my mother bought me my first basic digital camera.
now the photos could go on the computer.
i was amazed.

i took it to Queensland and took some photos of dolphins.

years passed and as i started high school, i couldn't stop.
i took two photography classes in school and still love it.

i have 3 cameras now that i use.
and plan to buy a 4th shortly.

i'm not sure what it is i love about photography.
maybe it's that a photo can capture a moment.
sometimes it can capture the simple things that no one ever notices.

it makes things so beautiful.
unimaginable.

the colors, the smiles, the memories.
all of it.
it's just amazing.

i hope to go on to take wonderful photos of this world,
as i get older and more experienced,
but i'll never forget my first camera.

the day i stop taking photos, will be the day i die.