I am not a pro, and am only elevated to the level of amateur simply by the level of time I spend obsessing about pictures. Taking pictures to record our own lives and our kids lives is reason enough. I suspect that when you walk around (the G logo in the grate on your website), or with the kids in the park (frozen slide) or are waiting in the car (car dashboard), you see something the strikes you and you want to take a picture. It feels good. Then it feels good too when your 1 of your 36 shots on a roll turns out to be somehing you like. It sounds like you are down on photography, and may have hit some sort of plateau. I have that feeling sometimes too. Recently, I purchased a nice Canson scrapbook binder that allows pages to be inserted. This is going to be a xmas gift to my wife, so we can "scrapbook" our lives for "the record". It sounds hokey, but I want to create a context for the pictures and snapshots that I take. The scrapbook (I really hope) will allow for comments, and other detritus from the day like ticket stubs, school notes and memorabilia to be included -- so that it is more than a photo album. When my kids are grown up and my memory is failing me, I want a record to return to. Anyway, I have high hopes for this scrapbook project, but it may fizzle out (like my use of the camcorder..). All of this to say that pictures (for fun, not profit) are invariably about life around you.
Keep your chin up and keep clicking.
John.
From: Gregory Fraser <Gregory.Fraser@pwgsc.gc.ca>
Reply-To: photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu>
Subject: Why bother?
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:26:08 -0500
Good day list members,
I've been in one of my regularly scheduled bouts of depression lately and I was considering giving up photography. I'm not a pro so its not feeding my kids and its really just using up money. So I was wondering if there is some reason, of which I'm not totally aware, to take photos.
Does anybody know of a good non-monetary reason to take photos (other than to record our own lives and the big moments in the kiddies lives?
Greg Fraser
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