Personal Narrative: A Career As A Photographer

Try being still long enough to find the right image you want to capture through the lens of a camera. Finding the right shot takes time, which each shot you want it to be precise and just right. You always want as a photographer to make the first shot the best one mostly so you want have to take the time to find another shot. Imagine how frustrating it is thinking you’re first shot is the best until you look at the blurry and unfocused picture. The first time you look at that picture you think to yourself that you can just retake that same picture and will look different the next time. Unfortunately it seems to never work like that. Now I am not a professional photographer I take photos because it relaxes me and let me take time to appreciate the nature that God gave us. …show more content…
Now imagine that you are a tennis player like myself. Tennis is a quick action game. Unlike photography there is no time where you can analyze all your shots. Once you get that wrong shot the next point is a spilt second away. In tennis the shot that you want to be the best is winner shot. A winner shot simply is a shot where your opponent cannot reach or get to. Tennis is action packed with every shot meaning something and isn’t a game where you can go back and mess with it like you can in photography. Tennis and photography are big into contradicting each other. Photography takes time and allows you to relax and doesn’t give you much disappointment in a bad photo. Tennis on the other hand is fast paced and has pressure on every shot you take. I have been able to brig tennis and photography to the point of complementing each other. After a long day on the tennis court whether it’s a long match or practice I am able to go outside and capture the beauty that surrounds