YouthLead Changemaker Photo Contest
TITLE -A Gift from the Past to the Future
I fell in love with stories and story telling at an early age. I decided to use photography as my main story telling method, an art form that I like to teach the children and youth that show interest in it in my spare time. My neighbors 12 year old son once happen upon one of my old cameras, a Pentax from a time well before even my own. His curiosity was the inspiration behind this photo which I took as he was trying to figure out how to take a picture with it. You could consider this image a meeting point of the past and the future in a way because from it he gained a respect and understanding of the fundamentals of capturing an amazing image. Since that time, every time someone comes to me curious about photography, I use it as a starting point because there is no better way to move to the future than to know and respect the past.