Reply To: What do you like about Photography?

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I love that it’s ever changing, always learning, always wanting/needing more.  I like that I can see other peoples lives, thoughts, feelings through the photographs they make.  I mean… How incredible to be able to communicate without words, and have it be pleasing/interesting to the eye enough that other people are completely able to understand it as well, or at the very least be drawn in.  I want to learn how to communicate as clearly as I can with my images.  It’s fun to just goof around as well, but there is nothing quite like that feeling you get when you are satisfied with a shot, and you see it in your hands for the first time.  Serious happiness when that happens.  I wish it happened more.  I was contemplating taking the selling of my work more seriously, but do you know what happened when I did that?  I stopped shooting, felt like I was trapped in a “I have to please my current audience” box.  I began to dread it, I kept procrastinating on moving forward with trying to make more money. Seriously, months went by and I started hating the idea more and more.  Nope, I think I’ll just shoot the way I want, when I want, and just keep selling a finished print or two now and then without pushing it or working at it, and trying to make all my shots fit some sort of mold that I unknowingly or knowingly created.  Big changes ahead for me.  More family snaps and personal shots, more street, shooting wider, taking things LESS seriously, and most of all shooting more both with intent, and without outlandish expectations.  I’m gong mirrorless, so I can keep my camera with me at all times, instead of “accidentally” forgetting my DSLR and craptasticly heavy bag at home.  Very excited to learn my new camera, and see where it takes me.