At the beginning, I faced many difficulties when going on this way because in my country, freelancer is not an actual job. It is mentioned as lightsome and unstable work. Those who are not good at any field, who cannot find an “actual” job at any company or organization, will be a freelancer. Then, with the development of social channels, internet and trends, there are more and more people have dared to give up 9to5 job and built their own career. Someone succeeded, someone failed, but it wasn’t longer lightsome. It has been becoming a job that many people want to do but not all of them can.

Several years ago, my mother wanted me to go to work at some of her office’s depending companies. She tried to connect and introduce me to those companies, tried to find some jobs for me. She didn’t know what was the best and most suitable with me, just found and wanted me to work, like other her colleagues did. In additionally, my father worried about my choice. He asked me about the future long-term plan, asked me about how to develop my own brand, asked me many many things related to work. I was twenties, how can I answer all the cases that haven’t happened, how can I prove that I will be successful in my way. All things I planned at that time were estimated using my knowledge and experience. Actually, talking about the plan is much easier than working and I haven’t had achievement to prove the success of my choice. I could see and feel the sorrow and disappointment in my parents.

At that time, I had to go ahead.

I learned most of knowledge from the Internet, sometimes I bought some courses online, joined several offline courses, re-connect with my relationships to learn about them. I have been working and fixing the problems during the progress. Hmm, sometimes I can’t believe that I can do it and

Because I don’t depend on someone else, I can choose my lifestyle.

It’s absolutely freedom, and it might be enough for this life.

J

2021.04.05

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Roses grow mostly in Asia and alternative number of this flower in Europe, South America and West Africa. They grow as a group with many flowers. However, in my photos, I only focused on particular one because with macro technique, the beauty of roses might be appeared on picture.

In this post, I do not want to concentrate on appearance or specific characteristic of rose because it is easy to be found on the Internet. I want to mention rose garden in the UK. When I went back Vietnam on June, my boyfriend cycled to that garden and took several photos. I was amazed and interested as I love taking photos of flowers, leaves, buds and small things so much.

Three months after, before winter in Portsmouth was coming, I went to rose garden. That was sunny day. I have to mention the weather whenever I go out and take photos in the UK. The reason is England is foggy land and most of time it is covered by grey sky and fog. Nevertheless, light is one of the most important elements which affect the most on taking photos.

On October, most of rose trees in garden were bare. There were only few flowers which still existed on dead branches. It was not difficult to feel the environment of good smell and imagined that it was a wonderful land with various colors of flowers. Notwithstanding, it was quite hard to find the best one to take photos lively.

Although that was not rose reason, there were lots of dead bunches, there still had rose bud that could be bloomed in good weather condition. I captured a picture of bud which was impressive, I thought. It was a dead branch, but it still had bud. That bud connected with branch slightly. Perhaps it would be fall down under small pressure. I wondered whether it could be grow up or die soon.

Besides, there were more buds in pink and yellow. They hided among many dead bunches. I could not move in nearby them and had to use tele lens instead of macro and wide one. I have a friend who likes my rose photos. She said that the picture of bud below illustrates the youth. Following this, youth can develop with encouragement of family and close relationship. All blur behind is society which cannot be affected so much on improvement of youth.

My interest of taking macro photos, especially of flowers, might be unlimited. I hope I can keep this enthusiasm to see the beauty of the smallest things. Actually, I have never ever been to an impressive flower garden like this. And this is always sweet memory during the time I was in the UK.

Anh Ho 29/01/2013

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Sakura is also called “cherry blossom” in English. It is known as national flower of Japan. There are many kinds of sakura which are natural or created by cross-breeding to provide the most beautiful flower for people who want to enjoy seeing sakura. There are three main colours of sakura, red, pink and white. The duration of sakura’s life is 5 to 15 days, but the average time is 1 week.

In the UK, there are two places where have a lot of sakura namely Gloucestershire and Staffordshire. The national collection of sakura (as known as Japanese cherries blossom) is hold in Batsford Arboretum. In addition, the largest sakura villages is in Keele University in Staffordshire.

According to the information from the Internet, in the legend, sakura was developed from “sakuya” which was the name of goddess. She put the first seed of sakura in the Fuji mountain. Hence, she was known as goddess of sakura in Japan.

Now, sakura appears in many countries all over the world, such as US, UK, Vietnam, Canada, China… It was also in several novels of Japanese like Yama no otō of the author named Kawabata Yasunari

When I saw a lot of cherry blossom trees in Ravelin park, near Portsmouth library, I was surprised because I though it is only in Japan. I looked like a sky filled with sakura flower in pink colour. However, when I took photos, I wanted to focus on each flower as macro photos to emphasize the unique beauty of this kind of flower.

Photos were taken on March 2012

Anh Ho

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