I’ve got the shutterbug
Lissa and I took our Canon SLR to Paris and took some photos. I’m hoping that there are some interesting shots that I can post next week. I would love to get a digital camera and be able to experiment more and possibly create a photoblog on Bombippy.
In the meantime, I’ve been researching digital cameras, visiting way too many photoblogs and taking more pictures than usual. I woke up at 5:30 AM this morning so that I could watch the sun rise over Lake Ontario from the Scarborough Bluffs and take some photos.
The light is incredible at this time of day and makes everything look interesting, including the guy that was driving his Hummer like a maniac across the public beach at Bluffers Park. He was a little startled when he saw me with my camera and took off.
It’s funny how you start to look at the world differently when you have a shutterbug. I’m constantly looking for something that would make an interesting photo—landscapes, light, clouds, buildings. Everything starts to look interesting and if it doesn’t I try to look at it in a way that I haven’t before.
I’ve been inspired by the photos at Fearfully Human and A Walk Through Durham Township. Hopefully in the next little while I will find the time to continue taking pictures and share the decent ones with the rest of you.
Stumble It!Posted in Photography at 4:36 PM
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Jay - Can’t wait to see your stuff. I was just at http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/ - nice Toronto photoblog.
If you have a chance to look at the photography of Freeman Patterson I think you would like it alot. He has written several books about photography - The Photography of Natural Things, Photography for the Joy of It, Photography and The Art of Seeing. All of them good. When I began shooting I had an old Voigtlander I bought at a neighbors garage sale and Freeman Patterson was my ad hoc photography teacher, albeit in book form.
I have spent the last weeks processing the RAW digital images I took in Paris - the local photo lab has a great online ordering service. I can order, pay for, and transfer my pictures online and walk down the street to pick them up two days later. We’ve already got a few big ones hanging in the apartment. Long live the digitial revolution!
I posted a couple wallpapers on my blog for download, one is a shot I took at the M d’O and I’m thrilled with how it turned out. I posted it up there just for you.
Posted by: David on March 27, 2005 1:49 PM
