He knew he wanted to be a photographer when his shot of a sea of lofty cogon grasses at the back of their two-storey apartment, taken with a crude Nokia phone in 2007, had given him the much-needed a-ha moment. In 2011, fate afforded Joemill a second-hand Canon DSLR camera, which was then to him a luxury, from a housemate to pay for his daughter's tuition. From then on, Joemill's journey in photography has never stopped, being an unrelenting learner himself.