yes. that's my name
can you believe that?
Benji
Benji
no.
that's not my name.
My name's Gareth.
that's right
there's this thing... yeah... this thing that I wanted you to know:
My name is Benji.
And I'm the weightless boxer wearer
WEEE
You know you love it.
oh yeah.
Hi, you may want to ignore the above lines as they weren't written by me. As to who did write them....that doesn't really matter.
I'm Benji or Gareth as you may have guessed and I'm really using this MySpace to show you all my photography work which is my passion. I specialise in band and music photography but I also like experiementing with lots of different areas as you'll see from my available light work (all the colourful photos and interesting lights). Yeh so if you are in a band drop me a line as I'd love to come and snap a few shots of you guys, whether you're heavy metal, indie, grunge, emo, acoustic.......whatever anything goes with me I'm just trying to get a bit of recognition as you guys are too.
So a little bit more about me.
I'm 18 and I live in Llangennech in Llanelli but I like to think of myself as a Swansea lad as I lived in Gorseinon for many years and Swansea Marina for a few months which was awesome.
I've just finished studying ICT and Photography in Gorseinon college and am due my grades pretty soon which I look forward to..........yeh okay not really. If I have the grades I'm going to Swansea Institute to study a BSc in Multimedia which for those of you who don't know is basically lots of designing such as web design and lots of other interesting things like that but I hope to use a lot of my photography skills in this course.
So basically I'm just a student though I do work part time as a 'checkout operator' in the Co-op in Cross Hands.
Shout out to the Co-op!!
It's really hard to write about myself, but I think I'm doing quite well so far, better than I did the first time I filled this in.
You may have been wondering why my name is Gareth and Benji, well my real name is Gareth okay? But Benji is a nick name and the explanation is this....
I went on this French trip once in Year 9 of secondary school and there were some guys a year or so older than me and they were being stupid, but anyway! One of these guys would write this soap opera or something of that nature and they had characters and so forth started naming people on the bus from the characters in this soap opera. Someone got Mavis and someone got something else, but lucky old me got named after their gay dog in the story....Benji. Yep that's right! I'm named after a fictional dog. There we go!
Anywho, if any of you people go to Gorseinon college are reading this I have a few things to say to you. First of all you're very cool because you go to Gorseinon college, secondly the bottom common room is the best and has all the sweets. The most important thing I need to tell you though is to go to the bottom floor of the Arts block and check out my photo which is printed in poster size and framed by the photography room. You'll know it's mine bcause it's a black and white photo of a guy playing guitar and it says 'benjirocks.com' on it, it's a bit hard to mistake it for anyone elses.
If you're taking photography say hi to Nat for me as she's a great lecturer and helped me a lot with my units, I'd also like to thank Pat as he taught me a hell of a lot about cameras which made me a much better photographer than I was when I started. Happy retirement too eh Pat?
I also love music which you will learn more about in the music section.
Thanks for reading all this, I'm sure it won't help you in every day life but you never know.....