Lushes memories for sure, Ann. J
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 1, 2018, at 4:46 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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 > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
