At 09:48 AM 12/18/2002 -0500, you wrote: >The best photographers do it because it pleases them. If by chance they >happen to sell their images, it's frosting on the cake. >Remember, you can't please everybody, so just please yourself. >Richard Cooper > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gregory Fraser" <Gregory.Fraser@pwgsc.gc.ca> >To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" ><photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> >Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:26 AM >Subject: Why bother? > > >> 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 >> Greg, The times I've hit a flat spell and got all introspective, or just got bored I did self-portraits with a long air-bulb shutter release. It was interesting thinking up shots. For the most part I was just an anonymous model rather than it being a purely narcissistic thing :-) AZ Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book. http://www.panoramacamera.us
