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"Reason" is such a weak human attribute. HA!
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If it weren't for the photographs there would be no point to it.
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Dear 2F/2F,
Every time I read a thread and see your comments I don't have to write anymore: you have said it for me.
Photography to me is a way of life, a way of looking at the world outside, so photography itself is more important to me than having stacks of prints.
This way of living can be a burden onto a relationship with some-one that does not understand this, that does not understand that you need diferent gear for diferent shots.
I have 3 camera-systems: 35 (D now a day's ), MF and LF and have been using that for the past 30 years.
And yes, I have a bit of GAS aswell: a new camera is allways a chalenge or at least something to satisfy my curiosity.
As I said: its a way of living........
Peter
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 Originally Posted by votrepear  If it weren't for the photographs there would be no point to it. Sometimes the process itself is important to the person.
I regularly do a six mile walk which starts at my house and ends at my house. Logically, I could dispense with the walking bit and be at my house an hour and a half earlier!
Steve.
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I get about 70% of my photographic satisfaction in the way the act of photographing opens me fully. While wandering through nature my level of awareness in finding interrelated elements, deciding on the strongest vantage point, then coming up with the best exposure / development combination goes into hyper drive in a way that just doesn't occur in 'normal life'. About 20% comes from turning the lights on while fixing the negatives in open trays and getting my first quick peeks at them. The last 10% would be seeing them printed, matted, and framed on a wall.
Murray
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Note to self: Turn your negatives into positives.
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I photography as a distraction from the stress and challenges of my day job...school teacher. However, I have been a fan of photography from my earliest days, back when crime magazines were printed with black and white Speed Graphic images. With a degree in art (drawing and painting), I like photography on different levels.
The first developing I witnessed was at a traveling carnival set up in a park in our rural town. The guy was developing booth shots by hand. As such I love the mystery and charisma of black and white film.
"I, in humility, am willing to learn, when you, in humility, are ready to teach." Rusty Tripod
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For me it's not photography until it's a print, I don't care for projected images. I did digital for about 10 years and was never quite satisfied with ink prints, went totally back to the darkroom 2 years ago and have been happy ever since.  Evan Clarke
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hi 2F 2F
i am kind of like you ..
i never get to galleries or museums
and spend more time shooting than doing anything else.
i often ask myself why ..
and i am not able to really come up with an answer ..
but i am sort of a different person with a camera (doesn't matter what kind) than without.
i am kind of shy and keep to myself, but a camera allows me to speak with people
i never have access to. i work professionally with a camera as well, and i have had access to
all sorts of things as a regular person i would never know existed, and i have had access
to people a regular person would never get a chance to speak with as well.
every time i photograph place or a stranger i learn about them and i learn more about myself.
i wish i had more time to print the film, because whenever i am making prints
i think about the people and things i photographed, and look forward to meeting them again
to give them their print/s.
Last edited by jnanian; 03-10-2009 at 09:03 AM.
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I enjoy all of it - but never at the same stage. There are times when it is just the act of photographing which motivates me; there are times when I do little picture-taking and spend my time in the darkroom and there are times when I visit galleries or look through the books I have accumulated over the years. At any given time I will be into only one of the parts - but I think I need all of them.
Now you have me thinking "Why?" - and my brain hurts I'll get back to you!
Bob H
"Why is there always a better way?"
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For me, I am a creative type who yearns to communicate with others. Photography is the way I express myself creatively, it is the medium in which I feel the most free to just create.
And I love the bits and bobs of cameras. The lenses, the thought process, the working on the image.
But for me, I need to be able to get it out there and see what people think, good or bad. prints, online, whatever. That's why I have a blog.
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