Are photographs the main reason you photograph?

[Ed Sukach]

All in all I, like many of you, need some very serious help.
Bob H

The greatest help I could give you would be to place your finger on the shutter release - and ... I don't know - possibly adminster a mild electric shock ...

NOTHING will be more effective - will promote growth - faster or more efficiently than DOING!!! Simple, plain DOING!

You have all the tools, talent, everything you need. What remains is to draw them out ... USE THEM ... and if there is another way to do that, other than by DOING, I haven't found it yet.

I'm certainly not immune either - this applies to me, as well. Now, to get my OWN gluteus maximus into gear!!!

[Robert Brummitt]

I photograph because I like the process of looking and then sharing. I don't go to galleries or showings that much, simply because I rather be with my family. I go to the local museum only when its showing a certain photographer or movement of photography.
I shared the original opening thread with some friends and I got many of the same answers as you all shared.
One person loves the education of photography. Another loves to look at photography but doesn't really go out and photograph. Some like to simply collect images. Others love the social aspect of gathering at gallery shows. So the subject is broad and wide in the various ideas.
This is a great thread. Hope more thoughtful questions like this are coming soon.

[ghost]

I'm in it for the chicks.

[mike c]

Man you guys cover a lot,I don't get out shooting very much at least as much as I would like.I have more unprinted negs than I could possible print,but I still have that great desire to shoot more, can't say what I like better shooting or darkroom work. Doing ether is way fun. I guess all I can do is live by the code,expose for the secretes and develop for the surprises.

[BobNewYork]

I'm in it for the chicks.

yeah, me too! But after 25 years it doesn't seem to be working out too well! I guess some photographers turn women's heads - me I turn their stomachs

Bob H

[hughitb]

I'm in it for the chicks.

I'm in it for the clicks.

[rudolf]

For me... it depends.
Photography is on one day making the prints.
On other day, it's wandering around and looking. It sometimes takes me to my friends, sometimes takes me to my darkroom. Sometimes it's a joy of looking at other photographs (like listening to the music), and sometimes it's a joy of making prints (like playing music), and sometimes it's a joy of taking pictures (like writing the music down).

Well, but anything I do, photography enriches my personal life. I met wonderful people thanks to it, so every aspect is so important.
And - thanks to 2F/2F for bringing that topic and to everyone of you for discussion.

I think it opens our eyes.

[BetterSense]

I do it for teh lulz.

[jimgalli]

I love photographs. Mine. Other peoples. I DO enjoy the books and I'm guilty of owning a lot. I do go to galleries to look. I hang out at websites like this. I waste time at Ebay. I talk to most anyone that wants to talk.

I love the cameras. I really love the lenses Ultimately I love the potential. Perhaps I haven't made anything important yet, but the potential is there. That keeps me seeing, keeps me learning, keeps me printing, keeps me photographing. I'm not sure why that is important, but it is. Perhaps I've evaluated my personal set of gifts, abilities, and interests and decided, this is something I can do. Perhaps I will do it well.

So the answer to your question is; yes.

[JMcLaug351]

yeah, me too! But after 25 years it doesn't seem to be working out too well! I guess some photographers turn women's heads - me I turn their stomachs

Bob H

Me too Bob. Only it's 40 years for me.
JOHN