I should have followed my dreams when I was a teenager. I should have gone into photography when I finished high school and gone into college. I hated accounting. I hate I.T now. I should have followed my dreams when I was younger. I got my first camera when I was probably around 12 or so. It was a Minolta film camera. Back then there was no digital photography like it is now. Now you carry around a phone that does basically everything for you. It shoots photos and footage. You can immediately upload those clips and pictures to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or YouTube. Back when I was a kid in the 80's or early 90's, we had no cell phones, or computers or the internet. Today, I sell my photography all around the world. My images have been used in books, on news websites and countless blogs.
I've been doing I.T. for 17 years now. I'm not getting anywhere and I'm not satisfied. My life feels empty. The only thing that makes me happy is when I'm out in nature with my camera and camcorder. And my girlfriend of course. I hate being stuck in an office sitting behind a computer all day. I feel really, really unproductive. I enjoy shooting photos and footage and then editing them on the computer or an iPad. I like when someone buys one of my photos or clips and uses it in their work. I can't really be creative in the I.T. field. Unless I'm a programmer which I'm not.
Back in my teen years and early twenties I was and still am good with numbers. That's why I was pretty much forced to go into accounting. I had one boss where I worked that totally turned me off of accounting. She was a real bitch to put it nicely. Then late 90's rolled around and computers were all the rage with the doomsday bug. The world was supposed to end at midnight on December 31, 1999. It didn't. We're still here.
The only constant for me was a love for photography. Only photography. I started doing photography with a passion around 2006/2007. I bought my first digital camera which had a two megapixel sensor on it. Then I upgraded to a 5MP sensor. Then an 8MP. Now I shoot with 20.1MP sensors which is enough for what I do. In 2015 I started shooting footage clips on a whim. I uploaded a short clip of a coyote in a fall scene. That sold within a few weeks of me uploading it for $120US. That got me hooked. Now I just do photos and footage. I have a YouTube channel that I don't use. I hate appearing on camera. I think once I lose some weight, I'll be more comfortable being on camera. Till then, not so much.
The next couple of months will be very important for me as I try to change my career path and life. I want to get back to a minimalist type of photography. Just travel around with a Sony RX10 Mark II, a Sony RX100 Mark VI, the Canon Vixia HF G40 camcorder and an iPad. I think I can shoot all my footage on those cameras and edit everything with a 2018 Apple iPad Pro. I just wish the Apple iPad Pro had a better file system and mouse support. Although I think you can do pretty much everything with the Apple Pencil 2.
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