Photography Quest with Panasonic FZ18

Hello world indeed. :)

I go by the name of Michelle and I live in the Philippines, a country of wasted beauty and sad ironies. I want to become a photographer.

No, I have no wish to become the BEST as that is a long shot to the moon. I only want to be competent enough to capture beautiful photographs to prove to myself and to anybody who cared that there is great beauty in our world and in life that is worth our efforts to protect, nurture and love. A photographer holds great privileges to hold a camera in their hands and be able to freeze a moment, a thing, and even time to eternity. Yes, it is possible to freeze time. You see it every time you view your photographs. And I am yearning to freeze my time. :)

And so I have a quest. Photography, I understand is not a cheap hobby. I couldn't finance it with my salary and I figured out that perhaps I can raise what I need from Adsense and affiliates. And my first quest is to raise enough to buy myself a Panasonic FZ-18. Why this particular camera? I will write about it in another post. :)

And so, I set up this blog and bought my domain today. I promise to document everything I learned and everything I did for my quest. Perhaps others will be interested to learn, too. So, learn photography with me, I invite you. :) I am hosting this site at Blogger yet as I have no budget for a web server. Perhaps when I earned enough. :)

I have also tried to mess around with the template and found this great website owned by a talented 18-year old Turk. He offers free blogger templates for free, he's very generous. Thank you very much for sharing your talent. Check out GosuBlogger's site if you'd want to change your blogger template. He has loads that he designed himself.

So, I guess this is about it for a first post. I'll try to fix the other sections of this wonderful template.

I enjoyed this photography by Steve Wall from Flickr. He adeptly titled it "Secret little worlds".