Why I Love Photography

In this blog I always say that photography is my passion and that I want to move forward in it. But I was thinking, I never said why it is my passion. I know that photography means a lot of things for a lot of people. For a lot of us it's a way to remember a life event, a trip or a fun time with friends. And that goes for me too. For some it's something they do. You know that one person that is always holding the camera and never has a photo of him/her self. For those people, I believe, it's a security blanket. Hiding because they don't want to be seen. I get that, standing behind the camera is saver then standing before the camera. For us humans it's hard to stand in the spotlight and get the attention. And still we crave it. We want recognition, we want to be loved and we want to be remembered.

Photography was, when it first was discovered, not considered as an art form. It took a while to get that status. It was specialist work only for trained people. It was available only for the rich and they too were skeptic. That is a paradox with how it is in this century. Now almost everybody has a camera. With the digital era photography is al around us. And now when everybody is able to take there own pictures, photography is an art. And that is why I love photography.

I always was creative, but never found a way to express it. I had and still have a very set idea about what I think is beautiful. I never had the ability to show what my idea about beauty was. I had and still have a different view on life and the world. I don't like to walk in a herd and I don't have the need to lead the herd. I want to be me, live my life the way I want and if I need to swim against the current I do that.  With photography I can be creative without having to be a painter or a sculptor (I can't draw, paint or mold a sculpture). With photography I can, without offending anybody, show what I think is beautiful. I can show my view on life and the world without putting myself out of society.  Next to that I love that everybody is able to take pictures but not everybody is a photographer.
I love that photography gives you the chance to look at something with new eyes. You rediscover a lot of things and you have the excuse to focus on it. You can look at something longer, you can look at something from every angle to get the best shot. You experience it to on an other level.

Now I told you that lets move an to the photos. Because I wanted to explain why I love photography, I want to share some photos that I took with my Canon when I first had it. These photos are from Breda in the Nederland's. It was the first time I was out with my camera without an other photographer by my side.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy Photography

Caroline