Why I love Photography
I’ve had a love for wildlife since I was a child, which mainly stemmed from my love of sharks and the worlds oceans, and ever since I was a child I think I’ve always had a love for photography, but I never acted on it until I was in my early twenties.
I got my first underwater semi-professional setup on my first trip to the Maldives back in 2015 and I captured some images that I was truly proud of. This camera came with me to South Africa in 2017, it was on this trip where I realised that I wanted to be a Wildlife/Underwater Photographer and Cameraman. I loved being able to capture a moment, a feeling, and I loved the detail that a camera could capture, detail that people do not usually see.
After several years with my first camera, it finally was not able to do what I needed it to do, so I upgraded my setup with a lot of help from Nick & Caroline at Frogfish Photography. The new setup has really helped me learn, its many settings and capabilities allow you to truly develop and advance yourself as a photographer.
Photography and film for me is about being able to capture a moment and allow that moment to change people by taking them there, unfortunately not everyone is able to jet out to these amazing places and see these animals, but anyone is able see an image and instantly connect to it. It is this that fueled my passion when I was a child and even made me want to protect our planet, so if it can do it for me, it can definitely do it for someone else.
Photography and the media has also had a huge part to play in recent years, in terms of spreading awareness of our planet’s issues, such as plastic pollution and the disappearance of species such as rhinos, corals and the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow, who’s numbers are around 100 adult individuals worldwide.
Science and the media can play an imperative role, with science gathering the data and helping laws and legislation to be changed, and photography and the media conveying this message to the wider public, which as we have seen increases the pressure of change to take place.
If you love photography and care about Wildlife and you want others to care, then go out and take pictures, capture that moment for others to see and help further protect our natural world.
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