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My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

Mexico | Monday, November 7, 2011 | 5 photos

This would be dream come true! I grew up watching documentaries; Cousteau's and, of course NatGeo Specials and passionate reading NGM. I wanted to be a biologist. Also, my father loved photography, so being a teenager I took my first underwater photos with a Minolta 110 camera diving in Cozumel reef. I prefered to shot fauna, flora and landscape and used to say "some day I'll be a photographer for Cptn Cousteau and my shots will be in great magazines like NGM." I got to college to major in Biology. But, I had to drop out for medical reasons just one Exam left to earn my BS (my Physician warned me: my BS or my unborn baby. I choosed). Years later, after my dad passed away, I entered Photography School. I was chasing my dreams: to study photography and not just start taking photos like anyone. It wasn't a hobbie but a passion, not leaving to be a biologist because I like the most to take fauna, flora and natural landscape photos; but the School hadn't courses on wildlife photography. So this scholarship is a unique opportunity to fill the gap that separates me from becoming a real wildlife and lanscape photographer and do it by learning from the best. As a biologist (although a dropped one) I know that's the way to tell our children and our grand children about the love that kids discover through screen and paper pictures, about every one of those little things that form our planet. That's what I look for my photography. And I know I must learn the right way.
My photo storytelling: A flock of sea birds at dawn flies over Tamiahua lagoon. Later, a great egret on a boat contrasts against healthy green water. I'm surprised as a spoonbill takes off toward me from the mangrove. Across the bar we reach the seaside, we may rest for a while. Look! There's a tiny crab in the sand!