On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Derby Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
Honestly, I don't think it every "clicked", it evolved, and while I can look to many moments when that evolution sped up somewhat, I don't think I ever had one single epiphany. Dad was an avid amateur, shooting with a Yashica A tlr. Got my first camera, a Kodak Starflash Brownie at about 7, first 35mm rangefinder at about 13, first slr at about 16. My first photographer/hero was Margaret Bourke-White; I picked up a photobook of hers at a library when I was about 11 and was enthralled. In high school we had bound volumes of old Life magazines from the first issue in 1936 to the late 50's or early 60's and I spent more time looking at those than doing schoolwork. Then I discovered blur... ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
