i'm 18 and this worries me on so many levels.
in a nutshell i guess you could say i would very much like to be.. what's the word for it.. recognized(?) for being the youngest person to achieve the most and has stuff to show for it in whatever field/talent i may have
yeah okay that didn't come out right.
this made more sense in my head.
like, i figured we all reach a certain point, or age rather, where what we do in our lives can be said to be "of a professional level"?
or at least once we hit a certain point it's a given that what we do is what we're gonna be doing for the rest of our lives, and people assume it's just what we do
WHAT AM I SAYING
ugh why is this so hard to put in words omg
okay.
bottom line is, i take pride in the fact that i was the youngest (and if i'm to be honest, most inexperienced) budding photographer to have been chosen by baybeats this year.
I LIKE BEING RECOGNIZED FOR THAT.
like, i love it when people say "oh hey wow that's a great shot" and then find out later that i'm 'only 18'.
i guess it sorta gives them the impression that i actually am gifted/talented in photography (hm fancy that)
i mean, they might think: he's so 'young' and able to produce such shots, he must be really good at this!
as compared to say when i'm in my late 20's: oh he's already in his late 20's, he must be fairly experienced with photography, meh
get where i'm coming from?
once we hit a certain age people assume we have sufficient experience in whatever fields we're in, and they tend to be less impressed, y'know?
at least that's what i think
okay i'll try to think of another example.
a 12-year-old piano player?
ah never mind.
with photography, there are means/ways of cheating, or sometimes you just get lucky?
what i mean is, you don't necessarily need lots of practice for you to make yourself look good at it?
ha, i like how i just typed "make yourself look good at it" without thinking for two seconds.
yeah.
but like i said, i genuinely wanna get good at it.
and the road to perfection is a long and frustrating one.
sigh