Re: What Do You Take Pictures Of ???

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:58:55 -0000, gojody <gojody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I couldn't resist buying a digital camera. No film. No developing.etc.

Just the camera, batteries, and SD memory card and I could take
thousands of pictures.

I was driving around taking pictures of people and then noticed
I was getting some strange and some hostile looks.

10x zoom so I wasn't getting right up in anyone's face.
Most shots about 25+ yards away. Still not a good idea.

So if you are not taking pictures of people, what kind of things
do you take pictures of ???

There's an infinite number of things to take photos of that are far more
interesting than any people. Why bother with them?

My photo collection over many years must have passed 500,000 by now, 90% worth
displaying, the other 10% worth keeping to learn from their mistakes. In all of
those there's maybe 300 total that have people in them. Those were only because
they requested me to, otherwise I wouldn't have even bothered. People are
generally very boring. If you've seen one you've seen them all. They all
generally have the same boring features, two eyes, a nose, two ears, and a
mouth, big deal, not worth a photograph, not even as a delete-able digital
frame. They all react the same way to the very same situations, day in, day out,
year after year, century after century. Predictable, to say the least. They
don't even do anything worth remembering or recording. Just turn on the news at
any time of any day. They've been doing the very same things every day since the
day I was born. When taking history books into account they've been doing the
same things before I was born. Nothing new, nothing worth photographing. They'll
be doing the exact same things next year that they've been doing this year and
the years before.

Do a simple experiment. Get yourself (or get access to) a good quality
laboratory microscope. You could explore and photograph the life in just one
gallon of pond-water for a year and never see the same life-forms nor the same
scene twice. Photo opportunities exist everywhere. You just have to look beyond
the mundane and commonplace that surrounds your life. Stop looking at the world
in the same way that everyone else does, then you'll see plenty to photograph.

Few have the courage and spirit to see the world in new ways. Even fewer of that
group have the ability to adequately record it in photographs worth sharing.

.

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