photograph more

Well I just got back from Yellowstone National Park, and now I am planning trips to Missouri, and Las Vegas.

I have found that short extended weekends really push me to take great photos.

I rented a 400mm 2.8 Lens from http://www.lensrentals.com for my yellowstone trip.

Being from South Florida it was a great change to get photos of things other than Gators and wetland birds :)

Dan
http://www.naturocity.com
http://www.dbnature.com
(You can see some of my photos at these sites)

I took heaps of photographs over the last few days, the weather has been glorious for it. Most were typical flower shots, I was doing bits and pieces around the garden and with the warmer weather a lot of things are flowering much earlier than normal. I just need to go through them properly and see what I have.

Getting a new camera for Christmas, hopefully it will be a good Nikon :)

I used to do photography all them time. My camera became old and I didn’t take photos as much as I used to. I received a awesome camera for my birthday but I still only take photos one certain occasions, I need to capture everyday things.

I became interested in photography shortly after the birth of my first child. The camera was always in hand, but I found that I just wasn’t capturing the images the way I saw them in my head. After becoming increasingly frustrated, I decided to buy myself a good SLR and take some classes to achieve the look in my photos that I just wasn’t getting.

I managed to take all the classes at my community college and found that I had a REAL talent for photography. In fact, it became my passion! I had another daughter, and the camera never left my hand….ever. (I hate to admit it, but I have more photos than I know what to do with)

It eventually became my desire to start a photography studio shooting mainly families, babies, and children. I realized I couldn’t do this while my kids were still at home, so I am postponing it until my youngest is in school full time. (2 more years!) However, I’ve noticed that as life becomes increasingly more busy, I have less and less time to just go out and shoot.

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE shooting kids, and I have ever chance to do so, as I am the resident photog for our mom’s group. But at the same time, I miss just going out on my own, camera and tripod in hand, spending hours shooting and just getting into the zone. It was so rejuvenating for me.

I don’t have the opportunity to leave my kids with my husband as he works off shore, so I find myself feeling stuck. It has become my goal this year to get out more often for ME. I need to reconnect with fresh ideas and new locales. It’s the only way to continue to grow as a photographer.

I do take pictures, but periodically. I have the equipment needed, all I have to do is take my camera out for a walk.

My idea right now is to take a photo of signs in the city, there are so many old, weird, cute and beautiful signs everywhere.

i need to spend more time developing my craft.

i mean… i would love to have photos to remember life eventS!
i take plenty. they are just in photo limbo- somewhere between my camera, the computer and the printer
confusing…

I have an online gallery to my photographs. We visit a place called Green Cay Wetlands frequently and we get some great “Everglades” like photos.

http://picasaweb.google.com/Naturocity

This was randomly inspiring and I just had to share. A friend of mine looked at one of my portfolio of sorts earlier today. When she asked where I got the photos from, I was insanely happy that she assumed there was no way I took those. It was very motivational, since I hadn’t shot a single decent thing in months. Nor had the desire to.