Over the hill

Bogdan Bousca, Romania

Since I have known myself, always I admired photography and I was very well surprised by seeing other peoples images … but I never thought that I will be capable to make it by my own. All started at the beginning of 2008 when one of my friends wanted to update his photo camera and he proposed to me to buy his old one. I refused his offer. He made my another one. I rejected again. He come back with a better one. Finally I buy it. I remember very well when I went out to do my first “shootings”. I thought the camera is broken. Then, step by step I started to learn by myself what does mean aperture value, exposure time, ISO value, how it works this triangle, what are the camera shootings modes. I never graduate any photographic school, all that I have done was learning by doing. I will never say that I make good pictures, I shoot as often as I can when I have the opportunities and in the same time I watch as much as possible other people’s photographs. It is essential for me to see many, many, many photos per day, for my eyes and for my brain. I try to be my own critic and my own screener. It is very important to me the feedback that I receive every time. The key is in exercises, in targets and in challenge with myself. Like in all domains, there is no end in learning and in discovering all the possibilities that photography can provide. I will try to never stop and to continue to do photos as per my own sensibility and soul. And I will continue to believe in this famous expression that “the best image it’s every time right behind you”.