Photography is a way of expressing myself. 😌 I have wanted a professional camera since always, my parents were just against it. They believe that we can take nice pictures with our phones, we don’t need to spend hundreds or thousands of money on luxuries we don’t need.

I have finally made them accept how much I need one and they see it with how much I appreciate views (I always say ‘what a nice picture would I take of this sky’).

I decided of rather than taking a professional camera, I’ll get an action camera (a Gopro) and experiment with it as it is waterproof also (great for now that summer is coming, underwater pics, landcapes).

I have so many ideas for pictures of landscapes, me, me with my friends, adventuring etc. I’m really self conscious however. I really want to enhance my instagram account with some memories as next year I’m going abroad to uni for 5+ years (I’m going for medicine so I’ll probably spend more than 10 years away with all the work experiences etc) and I’ll miss it here. I feel like I don’t have many memories captured.

These are some pictures I took with my phone, edited and uploaded on my Instagram.

These are my favorites. However you can see that I’m in none of them.

I really want to take and post some with me in them. I am afraid that they’ll look funny at the end, or I’ll be judged.

My grandfather follows me on instagram (yes my grandfather 😂), and once I posted a selfie a couple of months ago, he said that it was really beautiful but not a good idea and because only narcissists post pictures of themselves and people that need attention and have a low self esteem. That made me feel bad about it so I deleted it.

How can I gain some confidence and not care what other people think? I really have some great ideas, but I feel prisoned.