She told me I reminded her of her father, because my passion for this one subject led me to neglect everything else. Instead of forcing me to focus on school, and learning what my grandfather had called “A real job”, instead of “wasting your time with a job that will be obsolete within your lifetime,” she pushed me to follow my dream, which in reality was her dream.
My thoughts about digital photography started shifting, into thinking that there was only one way for me not to be replaced by everybody’s access to photography: I had to become the best, and I had to be worth that title.

I took those commercials very seriously, and memorized my favorite sections in the photography books, and I started seeing a world I hadn’t seen before. It was magic in front of my eyes. I got better and better, and eventually my weakest point was the editing part, which I didn’t get fully into, until I stumbled across a book called “Searching for Light”, by Corry DeLaan (I can’t find the English version right now: https://www.amazon.ca/Auf-Suche-nach-dem-Licht/dp/3898645657).

It was my only wish for Christmas that year.
It taught the importance of light and image editing, which is the digital equivalent to the dark room, that I missed so much.

After sitting with that book in front of the computer for a very long time, and later watching video tutorials and learning in school (this last part was almost inexistent because my passion for photography made me know more about the subject than my teachers), I got to a point where I was confident enough to start showing some more serious work to friends and family.

My mother cried and filled the walls of the house with those pictures, big prints of the world I saw through the lens of that camera.
When I look back at those pictures, I have to laugh, because from my today’s standpoint, they had so much room for improvement. But it was the start, and I felt like I was walking in the right direction.

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