I tried to take some photos, once. Last year in fact. I promise I was motivated by boredom and not a delusion that I have talent. I’m sharing them now for lack of confidence in the remaining old blog posts left for Flashback Fridays.
Anyway, this is them. And no, I don’t even have a good camera or any kind of proper editing software. I’m amateur through and through. Though I do like to argue that a photographer, a true one, can take a beautiful snap without fancy cameras and editing programmes and sets.
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
Read more: http://digital-photography-school.com/photography-quotes#ixzz2AR1IhSmL
Well, these are my first 3 so they must be awfully dreadful.
Ah well, at least I didn’t snap them on my phone and run them through a ‘filter’ then post them for likes, right? (Instagram jokes are still in, yeah?)
Take photos. Take them for yourself. Snap pictures of beautiful things, beautiful moments, the people you love, your home, outside your window, your children, when you looked most pretty, the first time this or that happened. Take photos because you won’t remember how beautiful life really was back then, now, without reminders. You won’t remember how precious life is, or how fast time really does go by. You’ll make sure to continue making moments and memories when you document the great stuff. And the bad stuff too; take that last photo of your old pets, your sick grandfather, demolition, destruction, smoke, heartbreak. Because it’s all life, and it’s your life, and don’t you want to remember it?
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Great post. That last paragraph is so true and poignant. Yes, we should enjoy the “now” but we also must think ahead and leave a record.
This is very true.
Mementos to remind us, while thinking forward.
You, Jessica, have a very good eye for this.
Thank you Richard
I have to disagree with you. It appears you are a photographer.
and a rather good one.
Haha aw, thanks. Perhaps this will be the start of some more photography for me.
I can say, trying makes us perfect but I disagree to the link above. My first 1000 photographs had the best of my creative inspiration showing in them – The last hundred thousand photos were just photos like all others. Jessica, you don’t have to be a photographer to capture the essence of that moment in your photos – You just did a great job to show what you wanted and that matters.
Cheerios
MB
Perhaps my first photos will be the best of my lot too.
Thank you very much, Jess
Those are photos from experienced hands, eyes, focus and lens. Super-photos that can land in any fashion magazine
Your first pics are lookin’ good…it’s hard when you take your own but they’re fun to see!
Thank you! It is fun to take pictures and see how they turn out. I think I was lucky with these, thanks
Nice! I always manage to take a blurry picture so you’re miles above me in this category.
haha don’t worry, I take a lot of blurry ones before I get a good one, but thank you!
Great shots Jess. Photos are a great way to generate site traffic too. Can we see more photos?
Oh well thank you
I wonder what a professional photographer would think haha.
Sure thing, I’ve been thinking of doing some more photo based posts so I’ll come up with something.