Beginnings

I had really bad vision as a kid. Everyone in my family wore glasses so I might have even been half lying when I told them I had vision problems. I wanted glasses but I wasn’t quite convinced that I needed them. Almost decade after my first Mickey Mouse pair that I picked out (and my mom let me purchase even though it surpassed the vision plan allowance) that I lied about a month or two later, saying they were lost, and knowing full well that I hid them under my bed, I still refused to accept it. Maybe life was meant to be this blurry, this doubled and this strange. I was soft focused.


Just before the big Urban Outfitters and flickr / tumblr craze hit I found Toy Photography. And it felt like magic. It felt like it was the way all photography should be. Full of light, a little blurred – soft.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I don’t call myself or consider myself a photographer. Not even just “an amateur photographer.” I’m not there yet. I’m not so big headed. I see that anyone with a couple hundred bucks and the internet can call their pictures art. I don’t want to be that. As much as I wish I were, I’m no artist. I’m a hobbyist, really. I’m not looking to become a professional blogger or barely even a professional photographer. I’m just sharing, really. Hobby sharing.

I’m 23, I’ve got a bachelor’s degree, and I work for my family in a pretty dead end job that I feel obligated to keep. It’s not a stretch to say that I’m lost. I’m floundering. Drowning.

So, this past New Year’s Eve I made a resolution:

I would find my calling. I would begin more hobbies than I’ve ever had. I would continue old hobbies that I’ve neglected. I would find the small thing that would ground me.

So this blog and this project is trying to delve a little deeper into this. Something that I love, something that makes my heart beat a little faster, something that will one day, maybe just one day, be the way my life was meant to be.

I'm going to try and have the following:

• Picture posts daily
• Camera reviews
• Picture adventure stories
• Camera purchase adventures
• Photography class entries
• and my general learning-growing experience.

Wish me luck!