Why do You Take photographs

[GeoffWessex]

Amazing how many left-handed people there are in Canada.... I play golf quite a bit and I'd say around 4 out of 10 golfers here are lefties...... in the UK it's more like 1 in 15 or more. I once heard a tv golf commentator suggest that Canadians get it from Ice Hockey...... which had me baffled, as I wouldn't have thought it made any difference.

Creativity in schools..... you really ought to check out this video. Sums it all up.

[thefonz78]

I'm also a lefty. I wonder how many photographers on the site are left handed?

I'm not sure why i take photos. It relaxes me i love learning new techniques and i think its the most powerful medium. I have always preferred looking at photographic images over painting or sculptures. I've always wanted to learn even at school, but my school didn't teach it in the art lessons. I took a level art in college because they said you could pick photography as one of you topics. This also didn't materialise.It wasn't until dslr's got affordable that i decided it was time to learn.

Geoff i have watched that video before, sums it up perfectly.

[donoreo]

Originally Posted by GeoffWessex

Amazing how many left-handed people there are in Canada.... I play golf quite a bit and I'd say around 4 out of 10 golfers here are lefties...... in the UK it's more like 1 in 15 or more. I once heard a tv golf commentator suggest that Canadians get it from Ice Hockey...... which had me baffled, as I wouldn't have thought it made any difference.

Creativity in schools..... you really ought to check out this video. Sums it all up.

I had a great aunt who was left handed. I actually bat right handed for baseball, shoot right handed for hockey, play tennis right handed and golf as well. Maybe I am not really left handed and just think I am? On my wife's side, her brother, father and aunt are all left handed and play sports left handed.

Most left shooters for hockey are right handed. The same applies to left handed hitters in baseball.

Both of my daughters seem to be right handed.

[ARIANA1985]

Photography for me is not only my passion , its a way of getting away from reality . My husband is disabled , suffers from ptsd , depression agoraphobia and couple of other illnesses , our days are always the same sleepless nights , looking after him , helping him ... so doing photography i can relax and forget for a bit - and enjoy myself . Dont get me wrong i love my husband - and i would love to have ''normal'' life but i cant have so yes photography is my ''happy place''.
Also im very shy person - so doing pictures is helping me gain confidence )

[cosmicma]

it's a question allright " why do you take photographs ? "
the short answer is " because i can "
the long answer well there's a thousand reasons
to preserve the memory would be one of them or to capture something you don't normaly notice or see very often would be another
some things a go out of my way to capture wildlife being one of them but on the whole it's the time and the place ( back to preserving memories again ) keepsaking you might call it

[ianpinion]

I think there are two main types of photographer. Those who seek to record a scene and those who give you their impression of a scene. The first tend to record what they see at the time of taking accurately, the second can produce a work where if you went to the location it was took at you wouldn't necessarily see what they had created. It's not a factual representation, it's an impressionistic representation.

At the moment I tend to fall into the first category, but I do like to experiment with the impressionism every now and then.

[Cutter]

Originally Posted by ARIANA1985

Photography for me is not only my passion , its a way of getting away from reality . My husband is disabled , suffers from ptsd , depression agoraphobia and couple of other illnesses , our days are always the same sleepless nights , looking after him , helping him ... so doing photography i can relax and forget for a bit - and enjoy myself . Dont get me wrong i love my husband - and i would love to have ''normal'' life but i cant have so yes photography is my ''happy place''.
Also im very shy person - so doing pictures is helping me gain confidence )

I know where your coming from, you need that happy place to take your mind away for a time, its what keeps us sane perhaps.

nice to hear your story , thanks for sharing

[GeoffWessex]

Originally Posted by donoreo

Most left shooters for hockey are right handed. The same applies to left handed hitters in baseball.

Drifting a bit off-topic now, but I find those Baseball 'switch-hitters' quite amazing (for UK readers, they bat both left or right handed, depending on the pitcher). I've really enjoyed baseball since I've been here (5 years) even if baseball fans and cricket fans simply cannot understand each others' point of view. Cricket can be brain-numbingly slow, or occasionally pure magic (particularly with the current England team). I think baseball (which normally takes less than three hours) would probably stretch to six hours if the fielders weren't allowed those gigantic 'mitts', but they certainly have great skill in fielding. Both games can also get bogged down by their love of statistics.... the range of tiny little stats that the commentators reel off during a game is mind-boggling.

[ARIANA1985]

Originally Posted by Cutter

I know where your coming from, you need that happy place to take your mind away for a time, its what keeps us sane perhaps.

nice to hear your story , thanks for sharing

it does - and it is fantastic thing to do , shame i cant live husband to long as im running out from ppl to photograph - all i have left is my own mug

[Dagwood]

Originally Posted by cosmicma

it's a question allright " why do you take photographs ? "
the short answer is " because i can "
the long answer well there's a thousand reasons..........................

Cosmicma says "because I can "..... for me that sums it up perfectly. How many of would love to paint....to carve stone or wood.....to write poetry .....or play a musical instrument....to write a novel.... to sing.....or dance ? Some of course can do one or more of these but I'd suggest most of us would love to but can't. But we can buy a camera and with a little knowledge we can begin to capture the world around us.
In short we are now able to be artistic and creative in ways we could only have dreamt of a decade or so ago.
Dagwood