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Pictures are memories capturing that one moment in our lives. Candid or posed, it simply freezes that moment. Be it just jamming with your friends or asking that crush of yours that you’ve been ogling for a while during your JS Prom.

It was almost 7 years ago when I had my first camera. It was a 2004 Sony camcorder. I was the first in our batch to have one that doesn’t need a film. These were the days when people still used cameras with films.

So there I was, I would bring it to school almost everyday during the last months of elementary. Taking pictures of my classmates and then saving it to our old PC. Really took a lot of pictures back then, even videos. I was also into editing but simple edits and cuts only.

I don’t know what happened to all the files. If I remember right, the old CPU was either washed away during the Frank incident or it must be that old CPU I found just laying there in our basement but not bothered to open as I am just too lazy.

Then 2008 came with my Canon iXY camera. It was bought from Japan and it was not yet sold here in the Philippines until the next few months. It was my last year in high school and I religiously tried to record all happenings in school. Thus, becoming somewhat an “official” photographer.

A shot there and there. Some poses and some jumps. My creativity was endless with the camera. And I even came to know her.

She became my model. Letting me take shots of her from different angles and poses. She even came to like my way of taking a shot of her without asking. (I show her the pics after and I would just be ogling at the pics for the rest of the day  ) I might even have a hundred photos of her saved in that old CPU and multiple photo accounts I have been using before but not bothered to open (I forgot some of the username and passwords).

But that was high school.

This 2011, as I wait for my baby D, I hope I can find another one like her.

Not exactly like her. But someone who’ll just smile at the camera as I freeze that moment I am with her.