11.07.11

How could a photographer get by without a proper DSLR?

For four years, I have done just that! The first time I learnt how to use a DSLR was by getting a crash course from my work supervisor (yes, I was hired as a photographer without any skills and knowledge on DSLRs) with a Nikon D100.

I started taking photos for school events as a student photographer. In my second year of college, I took a Digital Photography class with John Schott and learnt how to use Adobe Photoshop. I also took a film photography course with Linda Rossi.

I have been using a Nikon P80 for the past three years, and have been very fortunate to have traveled and shot photographs in about 10 different countries, guided by my international development academic framework. (Some of my work is recorded in the blog, Half a year in Africa. But today, on the eleventh of July, two-thousand and eleven (11.07.11), I got my very own DSLR!

Here it is (:


Now, I have graduated from college and I am going to give myself a breather from direct involvement with international development issues. But I am keen to find out how the two main interests that I pursed at Carleton -- photography and international development-- play an important but peripheral role in my post-Carleton life! (: