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01/08/2014 09:47:01 AM · #1 |
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01/08/2014 09:49:29 AM · #2 |
| Gotta love it. Although, I do enjoy leaving the camera behind sometimes and just enjoying an event, rather than observing it through the view finder. |
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01/08/2014 11:19:10 AM · #3 |
| This cartoon represents the constant battle between me (photographer) and my wife (non-photographer). I do love her though. (smile) |
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01/08/2014 01:09:28 PM · #4 |
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01/08/2014 01:51:43 PM · #5 |
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01/08/2014 02:59:49 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by dtremain:
Gotta love it. Although, I do enjoy leaving the camera behind sometimes and just enjoying an event, rather than observing it through the view finder. |
... ah but you see, I for one happen do very much appreciate having others enjoy the sites that I have visited over the years and I can only do this via photography.
You should see their happy faces whenever I take out all the photos, slides and videos to show them my latest travels, replete with maps of the areas visited, pamphlets I gathered and the verbal presentations I make.
The looks on their faces is, hmmmmm priceless, yeah that's it... priceless. :O)
Ray
Message edited by author 2014-01-08 22:49:38. |
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01/08/2014 03:11:33 PM · #7 |
I have to admit, I have gotten aggravated a people doing this.
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01/08/2014 03:14:41 PM · #8 |
| Taking photos of art in gallery is an odd one. Wouldn't have thought it would be allowed in most places. It wasn't in the gallery i worked in a few years ago. We had to keep up postcard sales. |
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01/08/2014 03:46:00 PM · #9 |
Regarding photography v experiencing, I think if you're in the right frame of mind, if your perspective is balanced, the one enhances the other immeasurably. I go places, and experience things, I never would if it weren't for photography. Just today, driving home from the market, we detoured to a nearby anchorage and experienced, in bitter-cold conditions, up close and personal, some amazing ice :-) Not all that *special*, mind you, but still *amazing* when you start concentrating on it.
How often do YOU concentrate on the details around you when you're not shooting, or thinking of shooting? That's the crux of it for me: photography draws me IN to experiences.
To be fair, I'm not the kind of guy that spends the whole roller coaster ride taking pictures OF the roller coaster ride, and that's a little alien to me. But for like 50 years now I've experienced life more fully, I believe, in part because I have had a lens to help me do it. |
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01/08/2014 04:22:22 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by rooum:
Taking photos of art in gallery is an odd one. Wouldn't have thought it would be allowed in most places. It wasn't in the gallery i worked in a few years ago. We had to keep up postcard sales. |
Clive, I've recently taken many art gallery/museum photo's for my photo blog even in the big museums in New York City without any problem. They just won't allow flash. |
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01/08/2014 04:52:13 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Regarding photography v experiencing, I think if you're in the right frame of mind, if your perspective is balanced, the one enhances the other immeasurably. I go places, and experience things, I never would if it weren't for photography. Just today, driving home from the market, we detoured to a nearby anchorage and experienced, in bitter-cold conditions, up close and personal, some amazing ice :-) Not all that *special*, mind you, but still *amazing* when you start concentrating on it.
How often do YOU concentrate on the details around you when you're not shooting, or thinking of shooting? That's the crux of it for me: photography draws me IN to experiences.
To be fair, I'm not the kind of guy that spends the whole roller coaster ride taking pictures OF the roller coaster ride, and that's a little alien to me. But for like 50 years now I've experienced life more fully, I believe, in part because I have had a lens to help me do it. |
Well said. Bravo. Now if I could only get my GF to understand that. :D |
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01/08/2014 05:21:56 PM · #12 |
Due to the many excesses of my youth, if I didn't take photos, I would never remember the places I'd been, the people I've met and the things I had done, thereby rendering the enjoyment of those experiences moot.
Loved the linked cartoon! *click* |
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01/08/2014 06:02:25 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by dtremain:
Gotta love it. Although, I do enjoy leaving the camera behind sometimes and just enjoying an event, rather than observing it through the view finder. |
+ 1 Obviously, paid gigs aside, sometimes I just want to go and see a live band or watch a sunset and not feel that I *have* to capture it. Unless I really want to. Sure sometimes I wish I had brought the rig along with me, and kick myself, but c'est la vie. |
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01/09/2014 03:25:22 AM · #14 |
Thanks for that - I can't wait to show it to my husband.
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01/09/2014 08:19:46 AM · #15 |
i've learned to leave the camera behind more than i used to. Before i used to drag it everywhere afraid to miss that great shot, i've learned that great shots don't just come along, you need to create them or go get them, so i'll take the camera out explicitly to try and get those shots i want, otherwise im enjoying the experience of where i am.
life is all about experience, whether its behind a lens or not, is your choice. |
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