Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

What say you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEbwT2Ay3qg

Cyberkinesis70 Loc: Northern Colorado

A long time ago I knew a man who was a photographer for the newspaper. I went to his house a few times to buy some lenses and shutters for my view camera. He had a huge collection of Graflex Speed Graphic cameras some Rollei and Hasselblads and all sorts of 35 mm cameras. He usually just gave me the lenses. But caught my interest was the big bookcase full of rolls of film and 35mm cassettes and even 4X5 film holders that had exposed film in them. They were covered with thick layer of dust. Plus X, Tri-X, Kodachrome and Ectacrome and film I can't even pronounce. One day I asked him why he didn't develop all that film. He told me he knew what was on it and didn't need to see it again. I asked him how he knew it was exposed properly. He told me that he knew it was. I often wonder was became of all of that stuff when he died. We'll probably never see any of it and he didn't.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

It sounds like he wasn't exactly playing with a full deck, or maybe he was a few fries short of a happy meal. Either way, no normal person would go out and shoot dozens upon dozens of rolls of different types of film and never process it. Also, the thick layer of dust covering his book shelf of film holders is a clear indicator there was something wrong.

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

Why would you use a camera if you never shared your photos. Sometimes it's fun to share our experiences or views of locations that others might never get to see. That is why I share mine. I'll never be considered a professional photographer but I do enjoy the hobby.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I need no validation.
I shoot for myself (and my wife). If what I share is liked, that's great.
If it's not, no skin off my back.
I realize that not everyone may like what I shoot. Everyone has different interests.
My shots mean something to me, memories of where I've been, what I have seen.
Improvement? I have a lot of room for that!

When I look at other's shots, I take them for what they look like, they'll either appeal to me or not.
I don't analyze images, I don't <intentionally> look for what could make them better, I look at them for what they are. (They shot what they shot. Why should I impose my likes on the way or what they shot? It's just my opinion based solely on what I like. I'm definitely not an art critic!)

Yea, I'm still a photographer, I just don't have (or need) a lot of notoriety.

Nancysc

The great street photographer Garry Winogrand died leaving hundreds of rolls of undeveloped film. If you watch the youtube video of him you can see how fast he shot and why he could burn through a dozen rolls in a couple of hours. He said he took photographs to see how things looked in a photograph. He was not crazy, senile, or otherwise "off". He was just a rapid-fire shooter who didn't have time to process all his rolls.

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

Note: He was a news photographer - I get it completely....I threw away some boxes of developed/printed film from a few years of "legal Photography" for a prominent law firm in my area...... most of those I never wanted to see again, no matter how well done, or how much they helped the law firm win for their clients.

redlegfrog

How many people have computers or portable hard drives full of images that will never see the light of day?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I do, I do!
But I do occasionally peruse the memories.

elee950021 Loc: New York, NY

The title of this thread and the youTube video linked above reminded me of a couple of my favorite photographers. In Garry's case, unfortunately he just ran out of time and passed from gall bladder cancer at a young age and could not continue processing his thousands of rolls of shot film. It's been estimated that a quarter of his photography remained in his refrigerator.

Another photographer, Vivian Maier, a nanny in Chicago and NYC remained unknown although she had been photographing for 5 decades. Her work, in processed but in uncut rolls and unprinted, numbering over 100,000 negatives, were abandoned in an unpaid storage space. Posthumously printed and published, her work has been widely praised. She showed little concern in whether or not, others could see her work. Later, two other sources discovered another 60,000 processed negatives.

As Steve Jobs said in an earlier autobiography: "The journey is the reward!"

Be well! Ed