A Sad and Disgusting Photography Story
Aug 5, 2018 12:36:55 #
A Sad and Disgusting Photography Story
I am 65-years-old. I bought my first camera at age 60.
I have lived on five Continents.
No photos.
I have lived in Valdez, Alaska and the great Alaska Penninsula where the great bears roam.
No Photos
I walked all the way from Barranquilla, Colombia to Peru throught the Andes Mountains.
No Photos
I guarded Rudolf Hess at Berlin’s Spandau Prison.
I adopted an orphaned kangaroo and we rode around in my jeep drinking XXXX beer.
I was a bodyguard in Rio de Janeiro.
I went AWOL and rode an elephant taxi into the Golden Triangle opium people.
And I lived in a tiny fishing village in the Philippines with the most toothy beautiful children
No Photos – No Photos – No Photos
And this makes me sick with myself.
I am 65-years-old. I bought my first camera at age 60.
I have lived on five Continents.
No photos.
I have lived in Valdez, Alaska and the great Alaska Penninsula where the great bears roam.
No Photos
I walked all the way from Barranquilla, Colombia to Peru throught the Andes Mountains.
No Photos
I guarded Rudolf Hess at Berlin’s Spandau Prison.
I adopted an orphaned kangaroo and we rode around in my jeep drinking XXXX beer.
I was a bodyguard in Rio de Janeiro.
I went AWOL and rode an elephant taxi into the Golden Triangle opium people.
And I lived in a tiny fishing village in the Philippines with the most toothy beautiful children
No Photos – No Photos – No Photos
And this makes me sick with myself.
Aug 5, 2018 12:40:16 #
Aug 5, 2018 12:42:37 #
craig.j.tucker wrote:
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Oh well, hind sight is great, start now and get going. That was then and this is now, there is only now, grab your camera and start shooting.
Aug 5, 2018 12:45:52 #
Sounds like an interesting life. Just think of all those photo's in your head. But I hear you, I've done a lot of off the wall stuff including living in a tiny fishing village in the Philippines. No photo's. I'm 64 and have had a love/hate relationship with photography since I was 14.
Aug 5, 2018 12:49:46 #
Aug 5, 2018 12:50:05 #
josquin1
Loc: Massachusetts
Sounds like a great life. I would suggest learning to draw to reproduce those memories.
Aug 5, 2018 12:54:55 #
Some of my best photos were taken only with my mind. Yours are word pictures. With just a short narrative you have shown us your colorful life, leaving us with pictures in our minds. Keep on writing!
Aug 5, 2018 12:58:04 #
I feel for ya, craig. I started photography relatively late and wish I had shots of much in my youth. Oh, well.... Hope you have the camera you want now. If so, don't put it down. Take it everywhere and GO!
Aug 5, 2018 12:59:09 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
The best, most meaningful photograph I ever took, I did not take. I had all the equipment I'd have needed right there with me, but something more important needed doing at that time.
Aug 5, 2018 13:23:42 #
If you had the camera you might not have seen all those wonderful scenes because you eye was tuck to the viewfinder. At best the viewfinder only let you see a 2 dimensional view and not a 3 dimensional view.
Aug 5, 2018 13:40:41 #
Aug 5, 2018 13:41:58 #
One Rude Dawg wrote:
Oh well, hind sight is great, start now and get going. That was then and this is now, there is only now, grab your camera and start shooting.
I could really get on the piss talking with an old Chief about the wonders of the world-- and beer!
Aug 5, 2018 13:43:31 #
BlueMorel wrote:
Some of my best photos were taken only with my mind. Yours are word pictures. With just a short narrative you have shown us your colorful life, leaving us with pictures in our minds. Keep on writing!
I have a new life. I take photo-trips, aka San Francisco, NYC, New Orleans, etc.
But I really would have had some interesting. photos from my old life.
Aug 5, 2018 13:44:44 #
Cany143 wrote:
The best, most meaningful photograph I ever took, I did not take. I had all the equipment I'd have needed right there with me, but something more important needed doing at that time.
What you said here, is exactly the way I looked at it.
I hated seeing tourists taking pictures of the lame frying on Bangkok sidewalks with their Kodaks.
Aug 5, 2018 13:46:48 #
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