Soaking in Hay Street

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

Worldwide | Sunday, October 10, 2010 | 5 photos

I am currently studying to be a physiotherapist in Perth. I love the science of it all and how it keeps me grounded.
The art of creating photos, on the other hand, liberates me. By no exaggeration, photography is a great source of comfort and purpose in my life. As cliched as it might sound, I find it intensely fascinating how the essence of a particular moment in time can be sucked out from a subject or place or scene by a barrel of glass and captured on a digital sensor the size of my thumb, then stored in a memory card just as tiny.
Seeing an image being captured exactly the way I imagined is more satisfying than eating a whole box of chocolate without putting on the fat. In short, I guess you could say that photography nourishes my soul (I know, it sounds cheesy, but I can't think of a more apt way to describe it).

I learned about this photography scholarship only today, and coincidentally, I experienced my first street-shooting session yesterday in the city with two of my friends.
Perth is renowned for its dullness, but even then, the city on a Saturday is rampant with a sort of energy I can only describe as offbeat. If Perth city was a creature, it'd be cockeyed.
These photos are morsels of the city that I had dug out during my excursion yesterday. They are by no means a comprehensive representation of the city and all its tics and quirks, but they are certainly my best effort in capturing its essence.

I hope you'll enjoy these photos.

And, if I am lucky enough to be awarded the opportunity to soak in the colourful world of Bhutan, I will literally run out of my house in whatever-coloured boxers I am wearing and scream: "F******K YESSSSS!". Only because the only thing that I enjoy more than photography is traveling to and exploring new places.