long long overdue post from last week’s trip to the beach. was damn excited and couldn’t sleep the night before since it was my first learning journey in such a long time (pretty sure it was for everyone). anyways the trip taught me so much; even though I am in no position to criticise the camp, through my experience on the last day itself, I felt that it was a wholesome experience.

I was super shagged from it like the participants (no complaints, my job was already much easier than theirs) plus to add on I had to go for a CTF comp throughout the weekend (more on that next post) and didn’t really had time to edit or see any of the photos. guess that explains why I only sent them out yesterday night hahaha

so many things to learn from this. first, i really need to master the Speedlite (1000+ photos and only 600+ were usable, reduced to 300+ after editing) and should have prepared for the trip. it rained in the middle when I was out at sea and I mildly sunburnt afterwards, things were pretty eventful. many laughs and fun were due to the people, and I am very grateful for the friends I made. I initially thought I would just have to talk to pangern (buddy photographer) the whole trip but yeah it turns out people from NY are friendly (as far as I can confirm 🥸) and yes I made a few friends I hope HAHA

anything to improve on? definitely. was thinking of so many things during and after the event. the moral dilemma for the photos and personal biases as a photographer was real, which I never thought I had to think about

I’ll admit. photographers aren’t supposed to be biased when photographing events. that’s how we get wholesome photos that capture the essence of the event. it just wouldn’t be the complete picture if the photos were only of certain groups of people. but we are human as well, and this event was in a new environment with fresh faces. yea I get that isn’t an excuse, but we tend to stick with familiar faces in such situations. that’s why we usually deploy more than 1 photographer. I apologize if you weren’t captured in any of the photographs, and do not have any digital memories of the camp.

I hope yall had as much fun as I did photographing you guys :) photographers seldom say this out loud, but we are grateful for the opportunities to photograph events because deep down we find joy in doing so.

can’t believe a week of December has passed already, I need to catch up on so many things.