The full story

My dad used to really like taking photos too. When we were young, we would constantly already have our own cameras, and he had his own as well. I remember mine being this Olympus pen that i had no idea how to use it, i was just snapping away for fun and playing with all the filters. It was a great time, and on the trips we went which weren’t many, i vividly recall having cameras and using them to snap memories of the trip. the one vivid memory was us at JB or malaysia, and we were down by a bridge leading to the waters, in 2015 or something and i finally took some photos of him down by the waters and being this passionate camera guy he was.

I never knew how precious those photos would become a decade later, after he suddenly passed on due to cancer in 2020. From then, I continued my secret interest in cameras the whole time, trading the actual camera for the iPhone for a fair bit until something got into me and I decided to get my first Sony A6000. Even so, at that time, I wasn’t ready. It was all just for fun, and I was taking horrible photos with it. I had good friends who got into the camera space, but I never ventured deeper because I felt like I wasn’t good enough. But as time grew, I learned more about cameras and its fascinating features, and invested further, and further.

And i guess there never is a perfect time or being good enough to start, and so that’s how I got to where I am today, with 2 camera systems, thousands of photos, all stemmed from that one memory: my dad. Creating MMRY by Pear isn’t about taking the nicest photos, or the perfect shot. It’s about capturing moments in that instance, not knowing if that would become a treasure of the future. It’s about capturing the essence, the life, the everglow, the current, and the emotions. The moments AI will never be able to replicate. That’s MMRY.