Being a photographer means that the responsibility of photographing other lies on you, it’s huge, and people expect you to shoot more of them as you are holding the so-called dSLR.

In human context, often, dSLR=Pro-photographer.

It’s not the case actually, and obviously, I’m nowhere near to there. I’m just starting off as an amateur, trying to learn tricks and skills to take a good picture.My photo skills suck, to be frank, and there’s a lot for room of improvement, and most importantly, I do try to improve, develop and constantly train myself to take better pictures, to portray better subjects and bring out the meaning of subjects.

Yet, being an dSLR user, often we are the one who work behind from the scene while people posing happily infront of the camera. They don’t understand, I don’t blame them either, but somehow, I feel like I’m not part of them, part of the pictures, I’m not inside, not within the framework of the camera, but lies behind the viewfinder. It’s saddening when people just take those pictures and ‘reframe’ it into their own pictures, yet never give credit to the photographers. I experienced that, and it does not blend well with me, when people happily using my pictures without giving credit.

And often, we are the one being neglected. Looking through my albums, I found out that I have the least of myself inside. Posibly less than 100 out of thousands that I had took. And so, knowing that my fellow photogs did take some pictures of me, a smile just brightened up on my face. At last, the photographer who is used to photograph people is being photographed instead. Thanks to saimatkong!

Sometimes it’s nice to be photographed instead!