Photography Is My Zen
Photography is my zen, when I am behind the camera the world is silent. I'm intensely focused on capturing the moment, there is nothing but that moment. That moment which I've captured, a split second in time, a memory which otherwise might be forgotten. I store it in my camera and share it with the world. Through my lense millions see the world as I do through my eyes. It's more than a camera, it's an extension of my body. It is part of me, part of who I am, every click of the shutter is a piece of my life.
I can still remember the first pictures I ever took. It was of a campfire in our backyard with my families old 35mm Kodak. They had got a new camera and instead of tossing it in the garbage it was my new toy (they weren't to concerned about small parts that could pose as a choking hazard I guess). It was shaped like an ice cream sandwich, dark blue and silver. Ever since then I've been a photographer and it's never faded in me. I remember trips to Wal-mart for rolls of film Fuji and Kodak and the type of film you bought determined what lighting you could shoot in and you couldn't change it until that roll of film was used up! If you wanted to shoot in black and white you had to buy film just for that.
I remember making the transition to digital, when 3 megapixel cameras where high resolution! Then came 5 megapixels and 10. I remember SD cards where in MB instead of GB and I can remember when a 5GB SD card was still huge! Not to mention the lies of "digital zoom". This camera has 100X digital zoom, well it did if you just wanted two big pixel squares for a photo.
I remember going through a 32 pack of Duracell batteries a week taking pictures and the fortune I saved when rechargeable batteries came out!
The price of digital cameras have fallen so much in the last few years as the camera with the sole purpose of taking pictures slowly becomes a relic of the past replaced by an army of smartphones. Born at the end of an era, the last of a dying breed or professional photographers.
I can still remember the first pictures I ever took. It was of a campfire in our backyard with my families old 35mm Kodak. They had got a new camera and instead of tossing it in the garbage it was my new toy (they weren't to concerned about small parts that could pose as a choking hazard I guess). It was shaped like an ice cream sandwich, dark blue and silver. Ever since then I've been a photographer and it's never faded in me. I remember trips to Wal-mart for rolls of film Fuji and Kodak and the type of film you bought determined what lighting you could shoot in and you couldn't change it until that roll of film was used up! If you wanted to shoot in black and white you had to buy film just for that.
I remember making the transition to digital, when 3 megapixel cameras where high resolution! Then came 5 megapixels and 10. I remember SD cards where in MB instead of GB and I can remember when a 5GB SD card was still huge! Not to mention the lies of "digital zoom". This camera has 100X digital zoom, well it did if you just wanted two big pixel squares for a photo.
I remember going through a 32 pack of Duracell batteries a week taking pictures and the fortune I saved when rechargeable batteries came out!
The price of digital cameras have fallen so much in the last few years as the camera with the sole purpose of taking pictures slowly becomes a relic of the past replaced by an army of smartphones. Born at the end of an era, the last of a dying breed or professional photographers.
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