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I was introduced to photography through my mom. To prevent me from getting into video games, she gave me a simple point-and-shoot camera and took me out to shoot during the weekends. During seventh grade, we would go to the harbor or suburbs to take pictures. It was an opportunity for parent-child time. At first, she just encouraged me to take photos of anything. I don’t remember her criticizing what I had taken (even though it was straight-up garbage, looking back). This encouragement and exposure to photography eventually grew on me. I started to develop preferences for the genre. I guess that’s when I realized that my mom’s play had worked.
I started with bird photography. I loved capturing the movements of the birds and just observing them in general, though I didn’t know what kind of bird I was shooting back then. My mom and I would sit in a car by the side of a rice field and just watch the herons come and fly away all afternoon. It was something that we could appreciate and talk about in common. We would also go to zoos, where kids would stop ...