From: Derby Chang
Friend-shooter of mind asked me today, when did it click for you? When
did you know photography was the game to be in? Oddly, unlike a lot of
my past history, I could pinpoint exactly the moment
I was sent out by my then-employer to do some work in Simi Valley, CA.
Bored, I picked up a Ricoh KR-10M with a modest Rikonen zoom (both long
since stolen). Landing on the weekend, I went for a drive down PCH to
adjust my body clock, with a plan to visit the Getty museum. After being
rejected because I hadn't booked, and after finding a not quite legal
park on the beach, I saw a pretty lady with a pet pig. Not understanding
the honourable history of street photography, I begged her to let me
take a photo, which she did, to my gratitude. It could have gone the
other way, but that shot made me think, there was something to this
hobby. Fine-boned ladies will let you take their picture with their pig,
what's not to enjoy?
http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_01/10_01_click/index.htm
So.....when did it first click for you?
I can't really say when. It was somewhere between 1959 and 2004.
My first camera was an old Kodak Brownie that had belonged to my
grandmother. She died just before I turned 10. She was a studio
photographer back in the 1920s, but lost her studio in the depression.
I've been taking photos off and on ever since.
I guess "it clicked" for me that I could pursue photography as a
profession during my Iraq deployment in 2004.
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