I have more on Cuba I want to show you. But, Dave prompted me to deviate today. Go to the Photo Page and see Dave’s new Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and his thoughts on photo lighting and bedraggled looking subjects! They are great – Thanks, Dave.
After you go to Photo Page, return and see:
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Why be a photographer?
For years, I have been helping to shape the Photo Club at TGO and I do not really practice the technology of taking a photos.
But, I have a very strong philosophical view of practicing “your” reasons for being a photographer – at any technical level and encouraging you to decide if they want to advance your technical excellence. I encourage you to advance their own reason for being a photographer and not worry about your photo technology advancement!
On the internet I have located a site that gives us 54 reasons for being a photographer. I have presented that topic at several TGO Photo Club meetings over the years (and other Club meetings also). At the bottom of this page I will give you that web link.
Here are four reasons I often think about as I whip my iPhone camera out of my pocket as I go about my daily chores:
2. NOTICE THE DETAILS
I love photography because photography changes the way you see things. I notice light, shapes, colours, textures, and I often ask myself “Why is that subject doing what it is doing?” …Everything around you looks different when you start to see the world as a photographer.
Two slugs on my dock – The slime trail of a slug is used to find a mate. But why is the top slug turning up its nose at the slime trail of the lower slug?
14. TELL A STORY
Photography is a fantastic story-telling medium. Whether you’re telling a story with one image, a sequence, a series, or an entire portfolio, the possibilities are endless.
Just ask yourself what story you want to tell, and photography can get you there.
I want to tell you a story – would I have a story about a wall?
OOPS!, Not a story about a wall – A little story about the freighter I saw heading up the St Mary’s river to the Soo Locks. – The James R Barker is a 1000 feet of freighter plying the Great Lakes (The third 1000 footer built) . She is 100 feet across – capacity of 63,000 tons of iron pellets, can have up to 30 feet under water, can travel 18 miles per hour, has two 8,000 horsepower motors. cost $43 million to build, was launched in 1976, (Keel laid in 1974) – caught on fire in 1986 and was repaired that year, it’s two propellers are 17.5 feet in diameter. Last year the Coast Guard helicopter flew to Canada to get a sick man off the James R Barker in Lake Superior.
21. CAN MAKE OTHER PEOPLE THINK
With your images you can also make people stop and think.
Just a glance at a powerful image can stop people in their tracks. Some images can change the way you view the world for the rest of your life. Strong stuff.
STOP LOOK UP -Let this image encourage you to study the sky every day and look for a beautiful piece of God’s abstract art!
54. DEVELOP A LOVE FOR LIFE
No doubt, there are countless good things about being a photographer. After all these reasons, this one should just make sense. With all the beauty, joy, love, connection, variety, history, adventure, movement, emotion, and awesomeness that makes up life, how could you not be stoked to get out there and experience it?? With camera in hand, of course.
Come sit with me a spell and look at the images you have in your camera and tell me why you are a photographer – them smile.
Here is the one link I told you about (54 reasons to go there): https://photographyconcentrate.com/54-reasons-why-you-should-be-photographer/
Oh my – Swing thru 54 reasons – then keep going and identify your own 54 reasons for being a photographer!
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