mrjcall Loc: Woodfin, NC

Matt K really is a master at presenting a rational point of view!
https://mailchi.mp/mattk/quick-tip-videos-and-calendar-templates-2336141?e=818837218a

Just Fred Loc: Darwin's Waiting Room

A better one.

G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

It is a fairly obvious point, do what you are passionate about and not only will learning be 'easier' but the choices you make will be more informed by your own knowledge.
My passion over landscape photography is a result of taking Scouts around The English Lake District and the moorlands of the North Pennines. Of Cycling through the Yorkshire dales and yes, walking the dog in the woodland of the South Downs. I also had the opportunity to study Environmental Science and Geography. Several times I tried photography - to document what I saw and where I had been. BUT, the results were horrible. It took age and less family/work stress for me to feel able to 'take the time' to learn photography.
Now I have the best of both worlds...The fun of enjoying 'the great outdoors', the knowledge to research where I would like to go and the kind of images I could achieve there and the 'Bonus' of being able to create images of my own that please me.
I take horrible portraits, I can see no benefit in BIF, it is too much like twitching or stamp collecting to my mind, and I have no outlet for product photography.

But going out and 'exploring' gives me a buzz - with or without the camera. But Now it comes along more often.

have fun

mrjcall Loc: Woodfin, NC

Nicely expressed....

JoAnneK01 Loc: Lahaina, Hawaii

I've always been into family and portraits. For a while was into landscapes and then into sports photography. I've recently started photographing birds and nature. The past few years I've done my grandson's troop Courts of Honor especially their new Eagle Scouts. Who knows where I'll go from here?

philo Loc: philo, ca

at 83 years of age i guess the type of photographer i want to be is...............alive.

dhight Loc: Marysville, Ca

When I first picked up a camera it was a Kodak Brownie for family pictures. After High School i was a news photographer using a Leica M2 a 4 X 5 Speed Graphic and a Pentax Spotmatic. When I joined the Army I bought two new Spotmatics and a couple of lenses. I started taking pictures of the troops in the field plus the typical tourist shots of Europe when off duty. My pictures caught the eye of the Commanding officer and I became the unofficial battalion photographer. I had a high security clearance which afforded me special duty photographing classified incidents including forensic photography, even the recovery of an H Bomb off the coast of Spain. After the Army i became a commercial pilot doing some aerial photography occasionally. Later came fishing trips to Baja while working with a fishing magazine. I also was able to meet Ansel Adams in Yosemite. After my wife died I became a freelance photographer just to keep my mind busy. Presently I'm retired (72 years old) and I'm back to taking pictures of family and friends some of them being boudoir style. What kind of photographer am I? Whatever I need to be to keep myself behind a camera