About me
My name is Jules.
My fascination with photography started in my childhood when I saw the beautiful pictures my uncle took during his travels to Brunei and Taiwan using his camera that has film and he asked my mom to develop the film into picture in a Kodak store. I remember I used to look at it from the photo album every single time.
I loved taking pictures of things, animals, beautiful scenes, and people not just for a memory but because seeing their smiles and hearing them thank me for the good photos I took brought me so much joy. I love words of affirmations btw.
In 2020, I remember my kuya (older sibling) asking me what I wanted for my birthday. I told him I wanted a camera, and he bought me my first that couldn’t change lenses- bridge camera Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H300, but it was perfect for a beginner like me since I wanted to enroll in a photography class that time.
When I started working as a teacher in the USA, I finally had the means to buy a camera with interchangeable lenses – Canon EOS R8, which I purchased from my tax refund in 2022. However, I became frustrated when I realized I didn’t know how to properly use it, and sometimes I felt like iPhone cameras were better. Little did I know, I just wasn’t maximizing the camera’s capabilities.
Praise God, I had a chance to be trained in our church and was blessed to be mentored by them in this, and I’ve been learning so much. I’m now enjoying the manual settings of my camera, experimenting the exposure triangle, editing, and exploring composition techniques.
God also gave me a vision to maximize this opportunity to learn and grow so that, in the future, I can use this craft back in the Philippines, where event photography is both a luxury and a need. I am praying for this vision, that one day, I can use photography not just as a skill but as a ministry to meet people’s needs and point them to what they truly need most in their lives knowing and accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
For now, I am doing my best to maximize every opportunity to be trained, trusting that one day, this craft will be used to bring people closer to Jesus.
Jules for Jesus 