A Quiet Life

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

France | Monday, January 14, 2013 | 5 photos

My love of photography had an unconventional start.
It began as a way to just capture moments, not ones that were particularly newsworthy, but ones that held great personal significance to me. However, as I grew up it intensified and became a long-standing passion.

Fresh out of school, this passion urged me across continents as I travelled through South East Asia and Europe. On my journey I realised that above all, photography always holds an opportunity for learning; whether to grow in my ability to create works of art, or to learn from the incredible people and places I discover.

Upon returning to my beloved sunny beaches of ‘Oz, I realized that my passion had once again evolved, this time into a deep-rooted ambition. This inspired my decision to start a photography course, through which I hope to take my first steps in an onwards-stretching journey of travel photography.

If, in thirty years, I can look back on my life and say I have jumped at every opportunity to learn, to improve my ability to express myself through photography, that I have made a difference through the images I have shared, then the journey, though with an atypical start, will have been the journey of a lifetime.