I have always been a photo enthusiast, but it was way out of my budget to do much with it in the olden days when I was in college and also there was only film in cameras. All the sudden they started putting megapixels in cameras! Last year, I bought a little point and shoot camera and used it every single day while my lovely 35mm film SLR languishes in a box in the closet. I am finding myself looking, looking, and looking at things, and my free time is largely spent walking around with that little camera. It has felt much like hanging around with an old friend I've known forever, this walking around and looking into a part of me that is kind of fearlessly creative.
And not that it matters, but okay it does, other people like looking at what I look at.
Though I take the kudos somewhat the same way I do when my dad writes me an email and tells me I should have my own newspaper column (which is a really great thing to get from this guy on so many levels but he is, after all, a biased dad and maybe he doesn't read very much ranting on the internet besides mine), I still have this little thought when I look at my photos:
These are good. And I don't even do anything with them--they are pretty much as I shoot them. Right now I am downloading photoshop elements, and I am yearning with every cell in my body for one of these.
I love the portability of my digital Elph. I love that it is always in my bag or my pocket. But I'm feeling ready to relearn the nuts and bolts of photography--light and time, those things that made me want to take pictures in the first place. Having a gadget as a tool is icing on the cake for a gadgetophile like me. I've got the old hermes for a camera that feels like a camera when I hold it. A camera I can use to access a little deeper that small unfettered eye I've grown to love to use.
*The Hermes: a term coined, near as I can tell, by my dad. Connotative meaning: really really wanting to buy something. The buying of the thing is inevitable.
1 comment:
While I don't fancy myself a serious photographer by any means, I've taken several classes and spent many hours unavoidably sniffing chemicals in dark, dark rooms. I too have my very aesthetically pleasing old camera-camera that I love with real film and pleasing clicking and winding sounds--all manual. I once had an Elf, which I also loved but I regret to say that it was stolen in Fiji out of my luggage, along with all my underwear. Sigh.
You are indeed a very talented photographer, Zetta, and live in a place with many things worth photographing!
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