When they see me picking up my camera, or my phone, to take a picture for the twentieth time that day, my children have been known to ask me: ‘why do you take photographs all the time?’
I take photographs because I often see the world, even if it’s just in my mind’s eye, through the lens of a camera.
I take photographs because I am on a constant quest to improve my photography skills.
I take photographs because it allows me to see beauty in the simplest and most familiar things.
I take photographs because they are my way of noticing, and of recording, small but precious moments.
I take photographs because photography is, for me, an act of everyday mindfulness.
I take photographs because doing so has become a necessity, perhaps even a compulsion:
I take photographs because it makes me happy.
You put it so well, this need to take photographs. I have it too. It being an act of everyday mindfulness -so true.
Me too. I am always taking photos, although sometimes my teenager now insists I leave the camera at home when we go for a walk.
amen to that! I get every single word, you had me nodding along like Churchill in the back window of a car! x
Feel very much the same and what I love is wheny friends come over with their cameras and we are completely at ease with doing it randomly xx
I love this. So true.
So true indeed, those little snippets will be so precious in years to come and great fun now. Lovely post and amazing photo, of course. x
What a great post!
I am exactly the same. My family often ask me, ‘Why are you taking a photo of that?’ I’m not criticising them but I think creative people see the beauty in certain things that other people just dont see! x
Photography as mindfulness- this is the first time I’ve considered the possibility. Thank you for dropping a beautiful idea into my mind this morning.
See you at the Write Now course!
Lisa x
Agree on all points, and will add that I take photos because it is my own way of meditating. I’m rather hopeless at sitting still in the lotus position and trying to concentrate on my breathing, but behind a camera, I finally can slow down into the moment and “just be.”
Ditto! I love photography, though I’ve hit a wall lately and feel like I’m not getting any better. Do you ever feel that way and don’t feel like taking pictures for a while?
Do you have any recommendations on how you think you’ve improved best? I’ve thought of getting a book to use for practise but there are so many out there…