What makes you embark on photography?
Jan 14, 2020 12:08:58 #
lilac wrote:
I had posted this question six years ago. I thought it would be fun to ask it again. I consider my photography as a journey. Why do you shoot and where do you want to go with it?
Lilac, dear lady:
I think you already know the varied answers from us.
But since you asked ? Me, I do not know why, I just like it and many here have already answered my reasons and interests.
Bruce.
Jan 14, 2020 12:14:34 #
Genessi wrote:
Photography is my passion! I love the beauty in everything I see. When I am out shooting, I am not hungry, I am not cold or hot, I don't need water. I am in the moment with lots of patients. I enjoy the sound of the outdoors with the winds ruffling and the sounds of nature scurrying about. We are blessed to see beautiful flowers and animals that might not be here someday. Even without my camera in hand my eyes are always enjoying the beauty that surrounds me.
I couldn't have said it any better!
Jan 14, 2020 12:16:24 #
My uncle gave me his older 35mm and got me started when I was 11 years old. I've had a camera since that time. Wow, that's 72 years! You would think I should have learned how to use it, by now. 
Mark
Mark
Jan 14, 2020 13:23:56 #
Picture Taker wrote:
Photography has made me see the world. It keeps you aware of things around you. How many people that are not photographers or artists say " what a beautiful sky" they are not looking at the world as we seemed to be. We are lucky as we see more of the world or should I NOTICE the world.
Exactly. Well said.
Jan 14, 2020 13:42:40 #
When I was a kid, my dad let me use the family box camera. You know, the old black leatherette covered Kodak. One Xmas I got a Brownie Hawkeye. Later, in my late teens, I bought a rangefinder-Fujika 35 from Baker’S Photo in DC. After that a series of Canons. I really like devices that I can manipulate, and I totally love the photo art.
Jan 14, 2020 13:50:18 #
The beauty that is all around us, the satisfaction in capturing it, and the challenge to keep on improving.
Jan 14, 2020 14:03:12 #
rodpark2 wrote:
While serving in The Army in Vietnam I felt I could do more good with a camera than a weapon. I've never tired of photography and the internet allows me to share it. I do just about every kind of photography, but traveling and recording nature is my greatest joy. I also teach, and getting good folks together for fun and adventure is the icing on the cake. I'll soon turn 76 and photography has helped to keep me healthy and feeling young.
Damn!!! Wow...How come the Marines are always better looking than you lot? USMC 60-67...In-country 3 times never had a camera, to be honest, I never saw a Jarhead with a camera.
That camera..weapon thing all depends on where your A$$ is.
Jan 14, 2020 14:25:21 #
I started photography in the 8th grade when I inhererited a Voigtlander 120 with a lieaky bellows. I taped up the leak, which then prevented me from closing the bellows and began to shoot. I set up a darkroom in the only bathroom in our family's home of seven people. I was not popular. I really stepped up my game when I retired and joined the local camera club. In march I have my first large exhibit--47 framed prints from traveling the world.
Jan 14, 2020 14:27:36 #
I am challenged by the idea of making an image that would result in viewers have the same emotions I feel in seeing the subject in real life.
Jan 14, 2020 14:51:04 #
lilac wrote:
I had posted this question six years ago. I thought it would be fun to ask it again. I consider my photography as a journey. Why do you shoot and where do you want to go with it?
During the first day of sixth grade class in 1966, the principal went to all the home rooms seeking volunteer school photographers. The school would provide equipment, and volunteers would be responsible for developing their own film under supervision in the school darkroom. More important, volunteer photographers would get free admission to all school events, including football, basketball, baseball, and tennis. I was an easy sale, and I've never quit. Today, officially retired from my serial entrepreneurship since 1967, I sell my Photographic Art as close of escrow gifts for Realtors, loan agents, title agents, and escrow agents, something I have been doing since January 1, 2015. I shared my tactics with UHH in August 2015: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-327835-1.html
Jan 14, 2020 15:43:41 #
lilac wrote:
I had posted this question six years ago. I thought it would be fun to ask it again. I consider my photography as a journey. Why do you shoot and where do you want to go with it?
I’ve been taking pictures since I was 10, so it was always an interest. I got my first DSLR IN 2009 and I wanted to learn everything. Now I’ve narrowed it down to portraits and landscape. My skills improve every year as does my gear!!! I hope to travel more to get more landscape photos in order to improve.
At one time I thought I would want a small studio for portrait work but that might take the fun out of it. So, I am satisfied taking school pictures, graduation pictures, engagement pictures, and maternity/baby pictures of my grandkids (notice I skipped wedding pictures...that’s way too much pressure!).
Jan 14, 2020 16:00:27 #
lilac wrote:
I had posted this question six years ago. I thought it would be fun to ask it again. I consider my photography as a journey. Why do you shoot and where do you want to go with it?
I love people, places and things so, each time I embark it takes on a new goal.., just for that day.
Jan 14, 2020 16:08:59 #
To share what I see and feel. Photography helps to organize and improve communications. Art? Well, I hope to show a little there as I have done in other mediums.
Jan 14, 2020 16:15:02 #
lilac wrote:
I had posted this question six years ago. I thought it would be fun to ask it again. I consider my photography as a journey. Why do you shoot and where do you want to go with it?
Mostly to document the growth of my married life, my children and grandchildren. When I was growing up no one in Hells Kitchen,NYC had a camera. I and my siblings have no pictures of us growing up. We were very fortunate to have have parents who understood the value of being educated. One spoke English one not so well. We were by far better educated than they. None of us ever thought we were as smarter than they.
Moving forward.. I have pictures/video of my husband and I and our family. I did gather all those little 8MM spools and gave them to a client who does this sort of thing. They were all in order; year month who was who and where we were. The photo albums were OK. He combined those tapes onto two large spools. The grandchildren love to see their parents as children and acting silly. I can not say how many times we hear"grandpa is that you" ???
I guess the answer is; my family.. our lives. I have rambled on long enough.
Jan 14, 2020 16:52:52 #
Rae Zimmerman
Loc: Pine Island, FL
I grew up a very verbal person, but realized that no matter how much I described things, there was so much I couldn't get across. Sometimes I needed a break from all the language. So I picked up a camera, let the silence in, and let the images do the conveying. Good strategy for me!
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