I’ve never been a fan of rollercoaster’s, but after graduating from university at the age of 21, I’ve had enough ups and downs that I should have gotten used to them by now.
Throughout this terrifying theme park ride they call ‘life’, I have been fortunate enough to have met so many amazing friends, especially at university. Joining a sports team was one of the best decisions I made during my undergraduate years and combining this with reading a degree I was enthusiastic about, one could easily believe that the lows would be few and far between.
However, even the strongest of us have moments in which we know something is not right, a dark cloud following us, visible even on the brightest of days. With time, this cloud grows. And for me it grew the closer I got to following the typical path of a generic graduate placement, one which would so graciously allow me to have an insignificant voice in an enormous city.
This all changed on the 16th of April last year, when I dragged my hungover self to the mall for a medicinal shopping trip to rid the taste of Rumbull cocktails from my mouth. I made one purchase that day, and with it I had found a new hobby, that has spread to its current state of obsession. It was a Canon DSLR camera, and with it I have managed to piss off a number of people with my extremely unsubtle approach to portrait photography.
As the days and months passed, my clumsy approach remained. Surprisingly however, the quality of my pictures and videos improved. It had taken three months, but my friends were finally content with a picture I had taken. I had a greater sense of achievement at that very moment than when I managed to convince a northern friend of mine that the ‘Midlands’ do actually exist!
Since my ego was now through the roof, it was time I conquered YouTube with my unoriginal videos, poor compositions, and God awful editing skills. It’s safe to say my early works such as “A Weekend Away in Rome” did not achieve the internet stardom I initially anticipated.
Fast forward to the current day and there is no grad placement and no real certainty in what’s to come. Yet what I do have is more ambition than ever before, my faithful camera, and blind faith in that by following what I love, somehow it will all work out.
So logically, that faith has led to me sitting here, at Terminal 3 of Heathrow Airport, with a one-way ticket to Australia in hand. The mission is to film, photograph and blog everything I can in the belief that chasing my passions will lead me to achieve my dreams.
So jump on board with me, strap in and enjoy the ride… we’re off to Sydney!!
