PHOTOGRAPHY IS PHOTOGRAPHY and NOTHING ELSE

                     I said it once and I'll say it all over again: "Photography should be what it truly is. It should be Photography." I've decided to write about this subject merely because I think now is the right moment to express what and how I truly feel towards our so-called photography course everybody is complaining about.

                    I've been an Advertising student for almost two years now and I've taken up a lot of courses related to my chosen field Advertising Arts, including the ever famous Photography course. I have just finished my first semester of Photography which was Basic Photography and now I'm moving on to the next level which is Advanced Photography. Yes, I know what you're thinking-- what has this got to do with the what-and-how-I-feel-towards-this-subject craze-- well, that's our main story here. Because you see, I have a Photography course which doesn't really talk about PHOTOGRAPHY. Yes, you heard right. I may seem to be taking up a course which doesn't really teach what it is intended to teach. And right now I AM FRUSTRATED. Frustrated not because of some random setback in my life, rather I'm frustratingly upset because I don't get to learn what I should have been learning all these months, I don't get to use my camera for the subject because our teacher seldom instructs us too (Okay, so maybe the decision on that is not solely based on the teacher because I can use my camera anytime I wanted too), it's just that I think I lack exposure and basic knowledge about my own equipment that I tend to be lax about photography. Yes I know I am being biased, and I may seem like I'm only trying to create the perfect excuse for not using my camera, but that's not it really. I do want to learn more, I want to use it more, but sadly, I feel like I don't deserve to be using a Digital Single Lens Reflex camera based purely on the knowledge I have about it, so I refrain from using it, I guess honestly I'm being intimidated by my very own equipment-- which I shouldn't be by the way because I'm paying good money to learn from the best and to get to know the pros and cons of photography. The only problem is, I'm not getting all that I should be getting. It's like I'm on the verge of starvation, and I'm allowed to starve all the more. It's as though I'm eating food but not really getting vitamins and minerals from it, I'm not capable of digesting anything because what comes in is just throat-deep. It's like walking in a Photo Lab and realizing I've walked into a different dimension-- not of photographs and the technicalities of photography-- but rather a very different, far world of business and money-making-machines-called-businessmen. And I absolutely believe this is crappy (forgive me for the term used) but that's how I would best describe it. Why even take up such a course if what we're talking about in class is far off from what we should be dealing with? Why even bother? I mean, if I wanted to do business then I should've enrolled in another subject or course right? But no, I wanted photography, I have been waiting for this ever since I started going to this university, and I'm pretty much disappointed with the education quality that I'm given.