My Favourite Things: Photography

I absolutely love good photographs. I don’t have anything against artwork and do appreciate certain styles of painting (although my sister tells me I have boring tastes in art), but I’m not sure that I could ever spare the wall space for such things. I always have too many photos to hang and not enough wall to hang them on.

I have loved taking photos ever since I was old enough to use a camera. If I remember rightly, my first camera cost me $3, which was about the same as what one roll of film cost back then. Amazingly, it actually worked! I have recently been asked by several different people to take pictures for them, so I guess my love of photography must be pretty obvious.

To me, photography is a form of art – and it’s one form of art that I can actually succeed at because it doesn’t require me to create beauty, but rather to recognize it and capture it. Of course, a good photo does often start with being in the right place at the right time. It’s a whole lot easier to take a beautiful picture when you have beautiful subject matter!

Exactly a year ago today, a friend and I got to visit Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge (Oregon). My verdict: a classic case of “right place and right time”! :-) It was absolutely beautiful. I wish we could have stayed and camped there or something. And made all the other people go away. Haha. This my favourite of the pictures I took that day:

It’s probably also part of my (rather large and not clearly defined) collection of all-time favourites, although it unfortunately lacks the sharp focus and crystal clarity that a better camera would have been able to achieve.

Perhaps one day I will be able to buy a digital SLR camera. It’s certainly on my wishlist. There are times when I don’t even bother trying to capture the shots I can see in front of me because I know I will just end up frustrated by the limitations of my camera. 

But I shan’t complain. My current camera takes great pictures for a point-and-shoot, and it’s far superior to my previous one which I lost while riding down a mountain on the roof of a car. Lol. I was rather sad to lose all the pictures on it, but it gave me a legitimate reason to buy a better camera. And at least it was a good story! :-)