On photography

You know, I don’t ignore your Wordless Wednesdays, or Skywatches, or Weekly Winners. I just don’t have much to say, besides the usual gorgeous, I like that one or the composition is really sick.

Plus, I would never use the word sick, to mean something good.

I took a couple of photo classes in high school. It intrigued me – mostly the development part of the process: the adding of chemicals and washing and magnifying and examining of contact sheets – but for the most part, my interest was minimal. I got the assignments done, I got a good grade, they let me play with an SLR and flammables and it was an easy class. Win Win.

But all of you, with your skills and interest and dedication to furthering what you already have built into your eyes: you leave me speechless. Because I don’t have that in me, or the patience and want to find it.

Part of me thinks that if I didn’t have a cheap point and shoot, and had the ability to take one damned photos without macro, flash, red-eye reduction and image steadying (which still isn’t compensating for my shaky hands and often-moving child) turned on, then I would be far more into photography.

Hell, I might want to be a photographer.

As it stands, I’m not nearing anything close to good and so I’m not into it. Lazy perfectionist=me.

But I’m still attempting a weekly photo project during this year. Quite frankly, I love the idea of having 52 photos of Zoë and having them made into a huge, fancy, over-priced book. Getting to flip through those pages and see proof on page of how much she’s changed between three and a half and four and half.

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If you’re here after reading the eGuide in the Sunday Tasmanian, heya. And just to let you know, Zoë is totally three, not two. And I’m 29. So I probably have to update my about page or something. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, but you want to, go see Veronica’s post.

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  • al_pal

    She's lovely. Neat photo.

    I really like my point & shoot: it has some options, nighttime, action, etc, & I've even taken some macro photos that impressed the guys at the camera store in the mall who printed out a couple 16 x 20s that I gave my mom for xmas a couple years ago. :P

  • secretagentmama

    I absolutely LOVE that shot!!!

  • Medlinniel

    omg she is unbelievably gorgeous!

  • I never thought I had it in me to become a better photographer, but I know that doing some sort of a project can only help me improve. At least that's what I'm telling myself.

    Love that shot, I may have to steal that idea!

  • ohmommy

    A weekly photo is a great idea! I love nothing more than to flip through my book from last year. I have done so at least a dozen times in the last month. Pathetic, I know. But it makes me smile.

  • I have tons of photos of my first born, not nearly as many of my second... I really regret that. The weekly photo project is a great idea.

    Even if you have a himmy-whammy camera, you still have to 'find' the shot. You can take fabulous photos with any point and shoot. Zoë is beautiful, I don't know if you could take a bad photo of her.

  • I also felt the same way about my point-and-squirt camera - thinking it inferior and wishing, wishing for a SLR camera. until i just thought fakkit, and signed up for the 365 photo-a-day challenge. using....wait for it....my blackberry of all things.

    even with a 3.2MP camera - it's kinda cool knowing i'll have a picture of my Kid for every day of this year. And I'm managing to do it every day (okay, I'm only 22 days in, but still) and at the end of the year, I also plan to have a photobook made.

    you know, so I can give it to him on his 16th/18th/21st birthday and say - "here's a whole year of your life".

    who knows, maybe i'll even carry on with it beyond the one year span. maybe it'll become a habit.

    but yeah. at the risk of sounding blase, that picture of your girl is *sick*...lol....no seriously. she is one cute little miss. although i'm sure people tell you that ALL the time.

    xx

  • It must just be that your subject matter is so beautiful, I don't notice you're not "anything close to good." ;)

    I would love to learn more about photography, but I feel frozen by a lack of vision/imagination - it scares me into tucking the crappy little point-and-shoot back in the drawer.

  • om nom, look at her toes!

  • Thankyou for the link!

    I love the idea of doing a weekly photo, although knowing me, I'd fizzle out, really fast.

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