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My Scholarship entry - Maldon and it's Steam Locomotives

Australia | Saturday, November 22, 2014 | 4 photos

Photography is a wonderful surprise happened in my life about a decade ago. When I was a young boy, we never had a camera in our home and taking photos were reserved only for two occasions, either someone getting married or dying! My father also thought it was a waste of money to buy a camera so I grew up without any idea about how much I liked to take photos.

It all started when my brother in law forgot his camera in my home. He let me use it and my father was kind enough to buy some film since we were about to take a trip together. I was 17 when I clicked the shutter for the first time. The majority of my first experiments turned out to be complete disasters but I ended up liking photography very much.

Learning photography by myself was not easy even with the help from Internet forums and websites. It took me a couple of years to get a firm grasp of photographic concepts and how it relates with the subject I see in viewfinder. This journey of learning photography has been really wonderful but without a mentor I have stumbled quite a lot. This scholarship is a great opportunity for people like me living with a dream of being a travel photographer.