Chantelle Park | Photography & Visible Storytelling

I’ve turned down images alternatives as a result of I used to be embarrassed to carry my digital camera.

Not as a result of I don’t love images.

Quite the other.

I like taking pictures. I’ve all the time felt like I’ve an eye fixed for it, noticing the little moments, discovering the best angle, capturing folks after they’re really being themselves.

But there’s one downside.
The digital camera I like most is my Canon G7X Mark III.
And mine is pink. 🎀

Sometimes I have a look at skilled images jobs and assume:
“Can I really turn up to this event with that?”
What if folks don’t take me significantly?
What if I don’t look skilled sufficient?

So I’ve let alternatives move as a result of I satisfied myself that the tools I’ve one way or the other makes me much less of a photographer.

And perhaps that’s why this feels much more ridiculous.

Earlier this yr, I used to be chosen as one in every of 12 contributors for the Getty Images Media Academy, working alongside, Getty Images, Nikon and BCOMS to develop my expertise in visible storytelling.

So why am I nonetheless anxious that my pink digital camera makes me seem like I don’t belong?

A digital camera doesn’t have an eye fixed.
A digital camera doesn’t know when to press the shutter.
A digital camera doesn’t know find out how to seize a second.

I do.

I’m nonetheless studying. I’d like to spend money on extra skilled tools ultimately.

But I don’t need to hold ready for the “right” digital camera earlier than I begin saying sure.

Maybe professionalism isn’t concerning the tools you flip up with. Maybe it’s about what you’ll be able to create with it.

So, pink digital camera and all, I believe it’s time I cease worrying about wanting like a photographer…and begin really being one.

If you’re an occasion, model or creator in search of images, I’m formally saying sure. 📸

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