About me

Writing about myself have being always difficult because I can't avoid feeling a bit selfish so I'll make it more like a story that just cold facts about me.

Who am I?

My name is Kenneth Rivera, I'm 27 years old. I'm computer engineer that works a large tech service company (I rather not putting the name, this is my personal thing). One of my main goals in life is to help others, in whatever is possible, from time to time that gets harder since I get the feeling I'm giving too much without receive that much, but who haven't feel that way in some moments of their life?

How I got into the Photography?

I started on photograph thanks to my dad, he was one of those guys with a old film reflex (a nice pentax camera) taking pictures of every possible moments in his kid's life and to honest I hated when i was younger. Eventually the digital cameras appear and something changed inside of me since it felt the connection between my career (computer geek) and the fact that I wanted to capture moments of my life. That was when he got his first point-and-shoot camera, which I "lent" it several times for my parties. Then in colleague I bumped into a few of my actual friends who all loved photography to death so I started to take more pictures on events and enjoy see them and got my own camera to shoot at work, at class, at party, at trips... but I compared my photos with theirs and that's when I told myself that I really loved to take pictures enough to adventure into learning the science behind.

I started to read a lot and check sites on the web about composition, and started to analyze a bit deeper my pictures, asking for advise and how things can be improved. I got a Nikon Coolpix point-and-shoot camera that allowed me to handle a bit more the settings and also it was compact enough to keep it in my pocket all the time, I carried that camera during my trip to Mexico-Holland-Sweden, and I took several gigabytes of pictures - some of my favorites - then a few months later I took it to my DC-NY trip, and inside one of the roller coasters from Six Flags the security belt was so tied that, well how can I put it, it was the end of that camera....

In DC with one of my friends, without a camera of my own, I drool over his Rebel and the nice pics he was taken, so I thought - What the heck! I'm going to get a new one even outside my budget, I want to take shoots too - and I brought my Canon 100SX IS, really nice camera, I enjoyed taking tons of pics in NY.

That's when I started to actually take serious the photography after seeing the results of using it more manual, change exposure, aperture and ISO on a very basic level, so when I came down here I took a couple of courses, during those courses I really learned not only from them but from tons of things I was reading on the internet (that God for the free trainings, tutorials, forums). Then my friend was selling his Rebel XT since he wanted to change body to a 40D, so I jumped over that camera with the idea just to improve and have a more solid camera... but wrong from that point on I've invested in lenses, flash, tripods, bag packs, filters, remote controls... for me it is amazing how much I've expended on a few time (over a year since I have the camera) in equipment, around $2000 from a guy that barely 3 years ago was happy with his point-and-shoot 4mp camera...

Now, I carry the camera everywhere I go, I take pictures that now amaze some of my friends - I still have to learn more and practice more - and create memories from things I love, people I care about... so I think it all came to fit right for me to have my own site with photos, since I know how to program, how to manage sites and that tech stuff... well this is the result. My photos + My Site + Free time = this site.

Thanks for reading all that stuff... somebody actually read about on the blogs. LOL.