About me
It started with my dads old Canon.
Or maybe even before that. When I was constantly taking photos or filming with my phone. Making my friends annoyed.
My dads old Canon mostly sat on a shelf in my small apartment, collecting dust. I didn't know how to use it.
A few years later I met Johan. On a dating app. He also had a camera sitting on a shelf in his apartment. He knew how to use his, but didn't use it as frequently as he'd like to.
Johan taught me about aperture and shutter speed and so on. It was super boring.
The part I enjoyed the most was when we were outside with our cameras and I explained to him what kind of photo I was aiming for - and he just changed the camera settings for me. Yep, I'm lazy like that sometimes.
Frankly I still struggle with the technical parts of the camera. And to me photography isn't about technical skills - as it is to some people.
To me it's just about moments, feelings, storytelling and so on. The soft values.
And I'm so excited for this part in my life when I realised that I can be creative in that way.
Because I never thought I had the ability to create anything. And later on I realised that photography is perfect for me, since I automatically think in frames. I've always cropped parts of reality in my head and felt like 'that would make a nice photo'.
I get so sad when I see a picture in my head and I don't have my camera with me. To me, that's probably my worst kind of FOMO.