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My photographic interests (no nude's, so don't even try to ask)

AuraTodd

I was given my first camera when I was 14yrs old, I think it was a Minolta compact.  I've had many cameras since then, but my best is the Pentax.  Why?  I hear you screetch in horror.  because it's weather sealed and has the stabaliser built in the body and not the lense.  Bassically I'm hoping that my pictures don't look like they've been in a major earthquake or hurricain, although you haven't seen my hair in the mornings.

I photographe landscapes, vanished streets and buildings, street photography and the occasional portrait (human and beast).  But as stated no nude's (unless your the guy who plays Frank in Transporter series then I might consider it, after my heart attack of course.)

BUT, back to photography.  I think it's important to capture the past, a vanished world before it's gone.  Life is changing all the time, we laughed at the way our parents lived, who laughed at the way their parents lived, and so forth.  If we don't capture it, then how can we remember what it looked like etc.

It's thanks to the photograph that we know what Lillie Langtry and Billy the Kid looked like, can you imagine it if that hadn't have happened? 

I have a website it's at www.louisetopp.weebly.com It's not brillient, but it's a start.

Get out there all you photographers and get the picture.  People don't take me seriously because I have Aspburgers.  So!  I couldn't take the wierdo in the clown suit in the market place seriously, and I hate clowns.

I have many influences including Sylvia Broom who was the first female journalist during WW1, she was amazing.  Julia Margaret Cameron was one of the first famous female photographers, and one of the first true celebrity portrait and beauty photographers.  Her house is on the IOW which I would love to visit.

Thanks for reading.

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  • Hi

    I indulge in photography too and helps me have a private hobby as all my hobbies have needed me to be out at time tabled events rather than something I do on my own basically for myself.

    I go to church and love the hymns and combine the two last year by taking a hymn and photographing scenes to go along side each line.  I done one hymn and took me about 8 month to complete because of I wait till I see something.

    So this year I am focusing on two hymns. It also deepens my understanding of the hymn I discovered because I want to know what it really means. What the author intended. Actually I did do two hymns last year but i like to produce it in a book and the priest told me I couldn't with the second hymn, colours of day, as the words are not 30 year old yet.  It has to be over 30 years old before I can publish it, though I still declare the author.

    I started out by writing my own short verse poetry and taking a photo to represent it or rather the other way around. I take a photo with the intention of writing a short poem. I gave that to the priest at my last church when he left. I started another album but seemed to have dried up as I moved onto hymns.

    Photography is a great personal hobby I think. I too not keen on people. I know I set myself a meeting up with the hospital chaplin for ideas about the first hymn I did. He looked through them and instantly said about the lack of people. I replied don't like people and abot that permission thing.... He told me most people be honoured. 

    I am glad you find photography works for you. Last year too about this time of year I had asked a priest if I could write an Advent book and would he support it. He said yes. As the year went through and I did have ideas but putting them to paper, well... it didn't seem original enough. So the book changed to a project and each week in Advent I presented a photograph in postcard format. The theme of that week how I see it. Everyone in church got them.

    But think it really great how we can use photography and don't actually need others to put our hobby into practice.

    Am glad someone else likes photography too

    Cheers

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  • Hi

    I indulge in photography too and helps me have a private hobby as all my hobbies have needed me to be out at time tabled events rather than something I do on my own basically for myself.

    I go to church and love the hymns and combine the two last year by taking a hymn and photographing scenes to go along side each line.  I done one hymn and took me about 8 month to complete because of I wait till I see something.

    So this year I am focusing on two hymns. It also deepens my understanding of the hymn I discovered because I want to know what it really means. What the author intended. Actually I did do two hymns last year but i like to produce it in a book and the priest told me I couldn't with the second hymn, colours of day, as the words are not 30 year old yet.  It has to be over 30 years old before I can publish it, though I still declare the author.

    I started out by writing my own short verse poetry and taking a photo to represent it or rather the other way around. I take a photo with the intention of writing a short poem. I gave that to the priest at my last church when he left. I started another album but seemed to have dried up as I moved onto hymns.

    Photography is a great personal hobby I think. I too not keen on people. I know I set myself a meeting up with the hospital chaplin for ideas about the first hymn I did. He looked through them and instantly said about the lack of people. I replied don't like people and abot that permission thing.... He told me most people be honoured. 

    I am glad you find photography works for you. Last year too about this time of year I had asked a priest if I could write an Advent book and would he support it. He said yes. As the year went through and I did have ideas but putting them to paper, well... it didn't seem original enough. So the book changed to a project and each week in Advent I presented a photograph in postcard format. The theme of that week how I see it. Everyone in church got them.

    But think it really great how we can use photography and don't actually need others to put our hobby into practice.

    Am glad someone else likes photography too

    Cheers

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