Mirror on life.

 

“Through the mirror of my mind

Time after time

I see reflections of you and me.”

It took a while, but as I have spent more time taking pictures…simple things like looking at the moon, trees, buildings, and even puddles have provided really great subjects to photograph.

I remember one of the first photos of a puddle was in Popular Photography Magazine; I don’t want to disappoint you but it’s no longer being published. It figures, we go from film to digital and so goes the magazine. What was kind of funny about the magazine was how poor the paper quality was. I mean, “come on” it’s a magazine about photography and the paper is bad? Yes, the paper was just a grade above what you would finding a newspaper.

I read somewhere recently that “photography is not real;” it went on the say, this is “because it’s not 3-dimensional,” and we just see it as a flat image. I had to read it a few times, and I tried to comprehend it, and finally “almost” did. I believe photography is real, can be held, viewed, and hung on a wall. So, it’s real!

A lot of people I know say they love video more than still photography—I have been asked if I would be interested in video taping weddings and other events? Whenever I am asked, I say…”I don’t do video.” I get a strange look like….how can you say that? 

Growing up I liked taking pictures, but I never really had time or real interest in doing it like I do today. I was much more interested in being with my friends and my father was the one who took the pictures in our house. I do remember when I was in high school and there was a dark room. I tried to get into it, but I always had trouble rolling the film around the spindle. Another problem, I didn’t understand the dials and all the set up. It showed when I would have the pictures developed…they were either dark, blurry, or overexposed. In other words, they sucked and I stopped.

Then I got into digital and the rest was history. My first digital camera was a point and shoot and I want to say it was more than $400. Today, it would sell for pennies on the dollar—if you even wanted to buy it. Since my first digital camera I have probably had more than 10 of them—-I still have them today, I don’t even know if they still work.

The photo above was taken at a pond near by. It was cold. It was overcast. It was perfect for photography. I have never thought about shooting film again, I guess it’s just a reflection on my shooting style.

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