When I walk around, there are always things that catch my eye. It’s usually colours, shapes, shadows, how the light falls in a certain way. That’s how I got into photography. I wanted to learn how to capture those things, moments. Learn how to do it in a visually interesting way. Because taking a photo of an interesting subject is one thing, but taking a captivating photo is something else. So I “borrowed” my dad’s dusty Nikon & started taking classes & workshops. Ten years and 3 cameras later, I’m still in love with the art.
I’m curious. Photographers, what made you start to photograph?
I couldn’t understand what my brain was doing when I went on walks. I hated those walks.
9 years ago I took my son on a trip to Scotland and started taking snaps. I was surprised to find I didn’t mind trailing him around with a camera.
Turns out that on those walks my mind had been computing angles and compositions.
In very late diagnosed with ADHD and possibly undiagnosed autism.
Since starting I was a finalist in photographer of the year, have been published, have images in my country’s national photographic archive but in the last year or so I gave up walking/photographing.
This post makes me think it’s time to get the camera out again. Photography occupies and calms my busy mind. Landscape photography bores me now - too much layering and manipulation. I like abstraction and high contrast, still life and street photography of unusual moments in cities. Shame I live very remote overlooking the Atlantic.