Appreciate

After I tried to take videos myself, I realised how hard it was to make even a coherent short of what I wanted to express. Which in turn made me appreciate and respect directors and filmmakers so so much more. Adding another dimension to the time I spent at Eslite this time, trawling through movies I wanted to watch and figuring out for myself certain things.

Holding a camera with a steady hand to keep it from shaking while adjusting the lens to gain the focus of you want and to express through that medium of the scene you want to note forever using your bare hands is quite an amazing thing. And you know, now that I've finally figured out how to use the recording mode of my dslr after more than a year (despicable and incompetent, I know) means I will probably use it more often. So much of what I want to capture shows on film and not as a still. But I suppose that too is a skill I would need to achieve, hey? To express it through a still. Finding my own identity and my 'eye' through my looking glass, so as to say.

That said, the gift of the 55-200mm lens is just amazing.

It renders the world into a completely different kind and has really brought about a whole new perspective on the everyday I see. I can see it now, every time I look at a scene or a photo and I can see that hey, it might have been taken with this, the thought process of the photographer.

And the recent trip up the mountains has also taught me how to appreciate binoculars. Of all things, hey? 

Adjusting to focus of the binoculars from near to far. Making it so the two visual fields overlap and it forms a perfect circle and completely widens your view of the world. It's so much fun experimenting out bush.

It reminds me of microscopes and year 11 and looking at plants in bio lab and then of me taking photos of how perfect everything looked under the microscope. I've got to find that photo again.

But for now, allow me to introduce: through the binoculars, I saw grass (蘆葦草).

Underwhelming, I know. 

But so very exciting for me.