I decided to participate in the contest organized by @ashwinrajt. He has a very good idea to help Steemit users with great content but not much success yet. I don't consider my content great, neither my photography or my writing. But I would like to share my personal reason why I started with photography.
My story is a bit different from those beautiful stories where your grandpa or your father was a photographer, or a famous photographer sparkled the light for your passion in photography.
I started simply to release my emotional pain, which prevents me from living fully up until now. I wanted to express my overwhelming emotions and couldn't find a better media for that, but photography. Of course, any creative process could help, but I'm not good at many things, and on the other hand, I think I have an eye to capture the so-called life because most of the time I am living more as an observer, than as an active participant in this game called life.
I also have hard times to express myself through words, more often than not it's a mess in my mind. I'm living under constant emotional stress and I feel maze by all these thoughts whirling through my mind. Since I was a kid, I have difficulties to express myself verbally or in writing. Speaking or writing in another language, like English for instance, makes things even more complicated. Sometimes, though, when my mind is calm and I feel my thoughts in order, I can write and speak in a very beautiful manner.
So, besides the fact that I love art in any form, I found photography to be the perfect media to express myself and my emotions. In the moments, when it's a mess in my mind, I cannot communicate normally and I close myself off, then I manage to take the most beautiful pictures without any effort, without previous skills or intentions, the photographs are simply brought to life from the emotions I feel and this is my therapy.
That's why I think the most valued art, regardless a photograph, a painting, a song or anything else, is created by very emotional people, experiencing intense feelings, that are hardly to cope with.
But that's only my observation. Feel free to share your opinion as well.
I'm sharing with you part of my photographs, most of them I took long ago. They are not technically neat and their purpose is to express and evoke emotions.
Enjoy my world of emotions!
Thank you for stopping by. Your feedback is highly appreciated!
Yours,
Isabel