This question has been asked many times, and it has not been considered for a long time. But recently, due to the tightening of epidemic control, many places have been banned from entering. There’s always a sense of loss when you don’t use your camera for a long time. If it’s a nice day and you go out all day with your camera, you’ll feel relaxed, and taking pictures can be healing, especially if you like taking pictures.
Why do you like taking pictures? Thinking about it before I did not understand the fun of fishing, remember once being pulled by a friend to go fishing. I drove over mountains (I almost got lost halfway) to get to a place. Two men were fishing alone in a river ditch. It was too much to sit still all afternoon. My friend, on the other hand, had so much fun that he ended up having to stick to night fishing, an insistence I dreaded. If it is a photo, you let me walk over the mountains, and night stars, get up at four or five in the morning sunrise, I enjoy it. Any hobby, once obsessed, is quite crazy. And for people around you who don’t like your hobby, it’s really hard to understand. Photography, in particular, is so big and competitive these days.
You think 6 in the morning is early, right, when you go to shoot at some popular spot, you see inside and outside, and everyone is holding a camera. When you see that, sometimes taking pictures is really boring. With photography, we spend a lot of money and time, and if you don’t like it, it’s a sad thing indeed. Why do we learn to take pictures? Will it help me? Don’t like it, don’t learn it, don’t waste time on it, don’t invest a lot of money in camera equipment, silly, although you don’t need the money, once you buy the equipment, you need to put in the time and effort, otherwise, you’ll end up with a camera that sucks like scrap metal. If I want to study photography, what’s the purpose? I think it’s important to think it through. Because once you fall in love with photography, it’s a crazy thing. If you think the madness is worth it, then congratulations, you have fallen in love with photography, and enjoying it is enough to make all the investment worth it. Sadly, you put a lot into it and it’s a sad thing to find out you don’t really like shooting. Everyone takes up photography for different reasons, from learning skills and the right job to pure amateurs and self-expression, whichever is the case. The essence is the same, recording beauty, and expressing ideas.
What’s the fun of taking pictures? In the park, it is common to see some grandparents with long guns on their backs, sitting all day shooting birds. Such a phenomenon is often not understood by some people outside the circle, or even laughed at. In fact, you don’t understand their happiness. This is a very technical community (and some of them are experts). It is a high pursuit of beauty. Besides, taking photos is a healthy activity. What do older people have to complain about when they engage in healthy activities? It’s not important to take a good picture, it’s important to be happy and happy.
Taking pictures, capturing the best moments at the best times of the day, and freezing the best moments in our pursuit, is a lot of fun. Go for a long time in a good mood, and feel the beauty of time.
The photographer’s heart is soft and sensitive. In addition to feeling the beauty of time, and the warmth of the earth. As time goes on, our inner world will change and we will become more peaceful. This is perhaps the greatest joy and meaning of loving photography. Taking photos is lonely, but falling in love with photography is happy with more and more understanding of photography, and slowly having their own ideas. Gradually you like to be alone in your favorite subject matter. For a picture, you endure cold, and hunger, climb mountains, wait alone, and often fail to return.
If you tell people what you think, most of them probably won’t understand. What’s the point? Slowly you become silent, and when you get the picture you want, the joy and happiness is something only you can experience. While it may be hard to share with others at the time, someone can always read your thoughts from your photos, no matter when it is later.
When your picture has an expression, it talks. It can be a point-and-line relationship, it can be a beam of light, it can be a moment, it can be a smiling face, it can be a look… I’m sure a lot of people can read your expression. It makes a connection to our otherwise cold and lonely world, and to express it in this way is a kind of high beauty. And it’s a blessing that the photographer can only feel that beauty.
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