Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
My initial forays into photography were via phone cameras. Back then, some 16 or 17 years ago, I knew nothing about cameras really, other than you needed to press the button to capture the picture. From some phone manual or other I found early on that holding the shutter button part way down locked the… Continue reading The Most Important Photography Lesson I’ve Learned
As is often the way with my writing here, an idea or title I start out with for a blog post ends up going off at a tangent, and I have a bonus piece I wasn't really expecting. This happened with the last post. So this new one is an attempt to delve deeper into… Continue reading (More) On Fallow Seasons
So as I head into year seven of 35hunter, the temptation with a new year is to write some kind of review of the previous one. It seems to be our western culture's way to constantly strive to measure, assess and appraise. If I was looking at my photography over 2021, it would be far… Continue reading On Fallow Seasons
Over the last 18-24 months I've photographed far less often. Both the number of times per month I go on a photowalk, and the number of shots made on each walk, have decreased to perhaps half, even a third of my prime shooting rate of a few years previous. I'm now more what I call… Continue reading The Occasional Photographer
My first intentional photography was with a camera phone around 2005. By intentional, I mean I specifically went out to make photographs, as opposed to being out anyway, and grabbing some snapshots spontaneously while I was there. The intentional aspect also meant I was looking for things to make pictures of. Compositions that I found… Continue reading The Comfort Of Knowledge In Photography
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