After the DST ended last month, I can always get a glimpse of the sunset when I leave the office and head back home. My company is right next to a Wildlife Refuge, thankfully, I get the most amazing view on my way back home. But sadly I never stopped to spend several minutes watching it fade away. I guess, sometimes, what travel offers us is an opportunity to make up for those moments we missed. On a second thought, maybe I am just not that kind of person who can always put aside the daily routine life and find an exit to the other side of life anywhere, anytime. Guess I do really need some mindfulness sessions...
Initialization #01
So, what brought me to photographing? My answer might sound little wired. For my college, I majored in electrical engineering, and optics engineering specifically. One major field of it was designing optical systems for different purposes, such as the telescope, microscope, and usual camera for sure. The very first motivation to get to know about the terms I am using so frequently now, instead of photographing itself, was actually to pass the finals. But I am feeling very lucky now to have learned so many theoretical things about lenses, imaging processing etc. They lead me to a different perspective of photographing, which is not just something visual and artistic for me.
Then, what keeps me doing photographing now? I still remember when I was in elementary school, I was always the favorite student of my math as well as the art teacher. Every time my mother brought the question - "what do you want to do in the future?" - to me, I would say "I want to be a scientist and artist at the same time!". And surprisingly, I am still heading in that direction somehow. Except that, instead of being a scientist, I am a software engineer now, instead of an artist, I am a photographer. And these two different versions of me kinda interact with each other in a very beneficial fashion. My visual and aesthetic sensitivity help me build more visually pleasant user interface at work, and my sensitivity and curiosity for science and technology help me find the most efficient way to express my aesthetic ideas.
Finally, I am here, sharing my photographing works with you through the website I built. Well, it's not built from scratch actually, thanks to Squarespace. But just to put a pin here, I am learning more and more advanced web technologies and UI/UX stuff, so rebuilding this website from scratch is actually on my list now. Hopefully, I will also have more and better photographing or even design works to share with you at that time.
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