Picking Up the Camera Again

You know something is going wrong in your life if you are a photographer – of any level – and your camera has been sitting on the counter for over a month collecting dust, literally. That is exactly what has been happening and I still did not manage to confront my own feelings and issues – either in private or on my personal blog.

A couple of days ago I passed by Knowledge Village, where the Gulf Photo Plus 2011 event is taking place, on my way to work. Though I typically assist, this year I decided against doing so because of other commitments I have this week towards work and college. Add to that cumulated stress over the past few weeks and many things to catch up on and errands to run. When I passed by, however, I couldn’t help but have a heartache. I never expected I would react in this way, but it physically hurt me that I am not part of the event. My whole body was revolting against the idea that I am not taking part of this great annual photography event.

With that, I decided to take the rest of the week off (I work part time but had a lot of things to do this week) and pushed my college work further into the weekend. I charged the batteries, picked up the camera, and was ready to roll.

That was the best decision I made since the year started.

I already feel not only ecstatic – but empowered. Though my brain loves to play the self-defeating game when it comes to photography, this time I decided to shut up my brain and just click that shutter button away. Today I had the opportunity to take photos of the wonderful Olita Dubanevica before Claire Rosen‘s “Portrait & Fashion Photography” class. I will upload some of the images to the gallery, as well as the experience, but here’s a little preview of how they look like at the moment:

Tomorrow, Friday 11th, is PhotoFriday which promises to be a superb event full of talks by world class photographers. I am very confident they will be incredibly inspirational.

I will write another update after the event.