On 4/1/2018 5:31 AM, Jostein wrote:
Den 31.03.2018 23:53, skrev Bill:
...
I've always felt that being where nice pictures are is more important
than taking pictures when there.
Sadly, I'm getting to the point in my life where it would be nice to
have a few more pictures reminding me of the nice places I've been,
and have forgotten about.
...
There's a balance to it, isn't there.
I feel exactly the same way. I know there are many nice places I've
been to where I didn't bring a camera, and it's a bit scary to face
that the brain has decided not to devote any synapses to storing
anything from the experience, based on some biological principle of
evolutionary significance only. Not a lot of mind over matter, even
within one's own mind.
Jostein
I've been thinking all this over. In my case, I seldom went anywhere
without one camera or the other in tow once I got the photo bug... but
that didn't happen until
I had already been in almost all the contiguous states without one...
unless someone actually had hired me for a specific thing I carried the
camera "just in case"
I spotted something I needed to show others, really, and to remember.
But the good thing getting accepted into a stock agency that only did
nature stuff was that
almost all of the photos I took in hopes of getting any that were
acceptable for them required the use of a tripod ... I rarely had the
camera to my face in those situations -
that is, when the subject was a glorious landscape, sunrise, sunset,
storm, etc.. I'd just soak in the scene with a cable release in my hand
or hand on the trigger of the
camera on the tripod with the color film in it pointed in the right
direction, mirror locked up.
I never made enough money back then to even justify the effort I put in
editing after I got home, but I sure enjoyed the field work.. almost
always solitary...
I can see the scenes in my minds eye they way you see what you are doing
in a dream, looking at yourself in the situation sometimes.
Very seldom have I set out "to do" photography - and on the times that I
have done the results were never as good nor the process as enjoyable
and fulfilling as
when I just happened on something while I was carrying a camera 'just in
case'.
ann
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