Chasing Dreams: Photography

I got interested in photography when I joined a photo club way back college. It was made more intense when I took photojournalism class which was part of the Mass Comm curriculum back then. I learned about aperture and iso and shutter speed and how to compose a photograph. I always grab every opportunity to join photo-shoots outside the school. One day, Sir Bien Fernandez, our photography teacher and mentor, invited us to join a group of photographers for a photo-shoot in Camotes Island. I was around artists, the best wedding and fashion photographers in Cebu. Armed with my instamatic camera and a manual SLR, I tried my hands on this hobby. However, it was a very expensive hobby and I felt that I cannot afford to spend for the films, prints, filters and the camera.

Now, with the onset of digital photography, I am more in-love with this ART. I get inspiration from photo-bloggers who capture life’s best photographs and I keep on dreaming and wishing that someday I will be like them. At the moment, my idols are http://www.pinkletoes.com/ and http://www.aileensiroy.com/.  They’re living the life I so wanted --- one who captures life’s precious moments and nature’s best behind the lens. Everyday I drool over their photographs as well as their gadgets. Someday, I will lay my hands on this baby…

But for now, I am contented to capture whatever life has to offer using my point and shoot camera.

Chasing My Dreams

Okay, I call this "Chasing My Dreams" series. This will be a series of blog posts which will have my hopes and dreams in life. Thought about this because I heard somewhere that when you shout your dreams to the universe, the universe will listen, it will conspire. So, I'm giving this a shot coz who knows, while I'm chasing my dreams, my dreams are just right behind me and it's the one that's chasing me after all.

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one..."
John Lenon

Eight Years

"You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride."

Jodi Picoult

It's hard to believe but Earl and I have been married for eight years. It's been eight years of not-so-pure bliss. We had lunch together today (which is really a rare occasion) over chinese lumpia and mineral water while sitting on plastic chairs at an uptown supermarket --- ain't that sweet? We don't really make a big fuzz over milestones. Well, I do but he doesn't so I let that quote up there work.

But seriously, that quote really struck me hard as it is a reflection of what my marriage has been for the past eight years. We do our share in making this marriage work but it's not always equal. It's either I give more and receive less or the other way around --- which I believe is really healthy.

So, today I wanted to thank my husband for being awesome in so many ways. The past eight years has been difficult yet we were able to pull it through. I look forward to more years, more adventures, more love, more respect of each other's differences, more dreams to chase, more dreams coming true, seeing our children grow and spending the rest of our lives together.

It is still one long journey ahead but as long as we have each other, it will be worthwhile.