When i moved from practicing whatever little architecture i was practicing, to pick up the camera to capture Architecture...it was a Calling.
Must have been.
Because there is no other way to explain the rough road it was to become for long enough time to come. Thankfully when i made that shift i didn't know it was going to be so, for then i might have deterred.
This morning's wake up beep brought forth a subdued realisation as i recalled that around this day five years ago was when i had inadvertently met my fate.
Without sounding like a diva, let me tell, it isn't easy to endure a Singular subject for photography when it comes to making it one's sole occupation. Especially if it happens to be as niche and not-so-popular-yet as Architecture.
The journey has been arduous but meaningful, fruitful and every penny worth my worry, every iota worth an aspiration.
Tis hour, am overwhelmed.
It has also rendered me the person who i am today, probably a more honest and useful one!
And my most valuable earning has been the People, this led me, to meet in my life... many many priceless associations who are a lifetime's keep. I hold in my heart precious all of them.
And i can never ever thank enough those amongst my family and friends: friends some of whom even became family to me in this while...they never ceased to keep the faith in me when i began, faultered, looked for courage and continuation. I am indebted to them. Really. I could persevere because they re-affirmingly bore with me in my unexpressed nervousness and unspoken sense of personal trepidation.
Its also my turn to thank goodness : Albeit i don't build, i remain the most ardent student of architecture... here i can observe, learn and appreciate more from through the lens than i would have holding that marine blue clutch pencil.
Making images then, sometimes seems incidental or natural and even inevitable.
Because. Architecture already Always Exists. Existed.
Only i have just begun.
Must have been.
Because there is no other way to explain the rough road it was to become for long enough time to come. Thankfully when i made that shift i didn't know it was going to be so, for then i might have deterred.
This morning's wake up beep brought forth a subdued realisation as i recalled that around this day five years ago was when i had inadvertently met my fate.
Without sounding like a diva, let me tell, it isn't easy to endure a Singular subject for photography when it comes to making it one's sole occupation. Especially if it happens to be as niche and not-so-popular-yet as Architecture.
The journey has been arduous but meaningful, fruitful and every penny worth my worry, every iota worth an aspiration.
Tis hour, am overwhelmed.
It has also rendered me the person who i am today, probably a more honest and useful one!
And my most valuable earning has been the People, this led me, to meet in my life... many many priceless associations who are a lifetime's keep. I hold in my heart precious all of them.
And i can never ever thank enough those amongst my family and friends: friends some of whom even became family to me in this while...they never ceased to keep the faith in me when i began, faultered, looked for courage and continuation. I am indebted to them. Really. I could persevere because they re-affirmingly bore with me in my unexpressed nervousness and unspoken sense of personal trepidation.
Its also my turn to thank goodness : Albeit i don't build, i remain the most ardent student of architecture... here i can observe, learn and appreciate more from through the lens than i would have holding that marine blue clutch pencil.
Making images then, sometimes seems incidental or natural and even inevitable.
Because. Architecture already Always Exists. Existed.
Only i have just begun.
:) :)
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