I started photography as a teenager on SLRs. I loved the way the camera felt in my hands. I loved nothing more than capturing moments, people and places. Photography was an expensive hobby for any teenager in the day when you needed to spend your allowance on film. It also proved to be very expensive learning from mistakes. Over the years, I had slowly given up on photography when life took over; university followed by work.

I got married and moved to a new country. Life started to slow down. I eventually moved from working in an office to consulting which resulted in finding time to pursue new things in life. We started to travel and I began my photography again.

I remember standing in the camera store in Singapore, looking at all my options. While all I wanted to do was to pick up the biggest full frame camera with all the bells and whistles, I took the reality check and realized that we travel light, mostly cabin baggage trips and what I needed was something light. I didn't want to get into the Mirrorless game, I still loved the SLR too much. So, I picked up the Canon 100D (since writing this, the latest Canon 200D has been released).

I still get laughed at by my photography friends. But the best part about my camera is that I've never had a situation where my camera was too heavy to take out for any occasions. While I will graduate to better lenses, I started with a kit lens. And the photos weren't half bad. If anything, the camera has pushed me harder to learn to develop my skills in both photography and editing. I love my Canon 100D and I reckon, I'd never give it up even if I get a new camera.

Many people believe that they need a better, more professional camera to do paid or even stock work. I use a combination of the Canon 5D as well as my Canon 100D to do both paid work as well as stock photography. The photos I submit to shutterstock, which have been taken by the Canon 100D, do get accepted as well.