Seeing Through Lens

I first took a photography class at a local community college back in 1994, and the class did not thrilled me. I guess it was a professor thing; he never really showed interest or motivated the students in his class. Basically, our only assignment was to go out and shoot some pictures throughout the semester, and I thought shoot what? What do I look for? How do I think like a photographer? I lost interest in photography until 2006 when I took up a class again, this time with a different professor name Martin Menocal at the University of Texas at Dallas. Martin challenged the students with different assignments that forced us to get creative instead of just shoot pictures and develop them. That was when I got interest and found my creativity in photography.

My mind sees the same way as with art, when looking through the lens, seeing a complete different world that cannot be interpreted in words. When I look through the lens, it is almost as if everything within the lens went silent, and then when I look at printed photos, it is as if a real faded sound began to pick up again somehow. Most of my photo are black and white because it reassembles what my mind saw through the lens, a soundless abstract image.

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