Laine Apine Photography

Photography is a portal. Once you notice it’s existence, you want to come closer. Once you come closer, you want to touch it. Once you touch it, you want to enter. Once you’re in, there is no way back.

I fell in love with photography as I fell in love with my first serious boyfriend. Before that, I remember being an early teen, running around with friend’s 3MPix HP compact camera and shooting like crazy. It started with self-portraits. That is still one of my biggest loves today. Then I noticed the world around though a lens looks more beautiful than I had ever noticed. I always sat by the window while riding trains and skipping school and going exploring my country, seeing my very big love, my first boyfriend. I am thankful to him, he showed me the door to this portal. Of course, he sees photography as something else, but he introduced me to the technique and skills needed and how to be persistent and dig deep enough. He was the book, I was the soul.

Before I ever noticed, I was too deep in love with photography. I got my zoom camera, after some two years my dad bought me my first digital SLR. Then I started exploring the options of photography more on my own and searched the internet for interesting film cameras. Before I knew, I was all up in 35mm film rolls and old-school cameras, running around and snapping the daily life and objects with expired film from eBay and low-priced Fuji films from the local supermarket.

There are a thousand reasons why I fell in love with photography. There are no words necessary to describe it. It all can be seen. It is a beautiful world; I am very glad I had the courage to enter.

We all start in our own ways, but where and how we go  further is a mystery.

Two of us are still friends, but photography has never left me. And I think I could never leave it either.