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My First Blog over Photography

    Saimantick's Inspiration 
      as an  
Amateur Photographer

 PHOTOGRAPHY [O`]

PHOTOGRAPHY is a great passion of one's life.............its a great way to convey something without even saying a word......
The word photography comes from two ancient Greek words: photo, for "light," and graph, for "drawing." 
"Drawing with light" is a way of describing photography. When a photograph is made, light or some other 
form of radiant energy, such as X rays, is used to record a picture of an object or scene on a light-sensitive surface. Early photographs were called sun pictures, because sunlight itself was used to create the image.    Mankind has been a maker of images at least since the cave paintings of some 20,000 years ago. With the invention of photography, a realistic image that would have taken a skilled artist hours or even days to draw could be recorded in exact detail within a fraction of a second.

Photographs are amazing.  Through photographs, we preserve history - our child's first steps, a decaying landscape, or rare and endangered animals.  We use photographs to recall the first steps on the moon, the inauguration of a new president, the lifting of a flag on a far-away hill during war.  Mothers laboriously decorate large scrapbooks just to protect their precious memories.   Photographs evoke the essence of places we have not been, we perhaps will not return to, and should never forget.  

With a photograph, I can bring someone from his or her spot on the globe to mine.  They can stand with me in the midst of a pine forest or walk in hushed silence through the musky light of a swamp.  In reverse, through the images of others, I have walked across hot, sandy deserts; I have stood on immense mountaintops, and pushed my way through steamy rainforests.  Photographs have introduced me to families, mothers and fathers I have never met, and told the story of lives intertwined forever.  In short, photographs are very important.

Passion

Photographs are visual artwork.  They take something ordinary and elevate it to a position of honor.  A strand of barbed wire fencing becomes romantic; the seed of a common weed fires the imagination.

Famed landscape artist, Ansel Adams, once said, "A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."  I also like a quote I once read by photographer David Hum.  "Photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else."  What images I capture should express the passion I feel for that scene, that object, or that moment in time.  When other people view my work, they should know in part who I am as a person.

It seems simple to say it, but photography should always be fun.  It is great to have ones work published in the marketplace and it is nice to make money from it, but at the same time, I should always enjoy the process.  My passion for photography, my passion for the photograph itself and thus for the subject matter, must communicate itself to the viewer.  An image of a spider spinning her web should fascinate others as much as it did me when I took it.

Connections

Photography connects people - through interests, locations, and cultures.  It spans time and distance as a bridge between worlds.  I have learned much about life, nature, and people by connecting myself with photography groups and viewing online galleries.  At the same time, the people I have met come from all levels of photography.  There is nothing as heartwarming as meeting someone who has traveled further than I and photographed things I will never see in person, yet they are still humble, willing to share their experiences, and teach others what they have learned.

None of us are ever above the other in photographic society.  Owning a DSLR does not make a photographer greater than the father with a point-and-shoot who just wants to remember his son's ballgame.  It will create more opportunities for taking better photos with less effort, but in the end, it doesn't make you any greater.  

My attitude in public, my willingness to share what I have learned, will have a direct reflection on of what others think of my work.  Kindness goes a long way to create a persona other people like enough to spend their time looking at what I have done.  In the end, our behavior furthers our photographic goals, no matter how large or small they may be.

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*I clicked all the pictures with my Canon PowerShot A480 and this is my first Blog....i would like to    thank my parents, specially my mother, my teachers and everyone who encouraged me and gave a chance to go clicking wherever i want.....