A long time ago, when I was about six years old, I loved taking pictures of many-many things I've came across with - mostly nature. Of course, I had a small, film camera, with fixed, 35 mm lens, so the pictures were.. well, they were not really good.
After that I recieved a 35-70mm zoom Carena, film of course - it was my mother's, and I got it after my parents bought themselves a film Nikon SLR. I used it for a long time, made some good pictures with it, but I didn't used it consciously. Just in point-and-shoot mode. It was a good one, until it had a dive in the river Rába.
After that, photography went standby in my life, for long time.
A change came somehow in 2004, when I went skiing with my friends. I borrowed a small, 3MP digital, and I saw one of the most beautiful frozen landscape ever, and the inner need for taking photos hit me once again.
I decided to take a photography course, to learn the technical details - and I started learning on a Contax RTS.
In a while I turned my intrest towards the digital world, mostly because the slow feedback. I couldn't afford a DSLR in 2006, so I bought myself a Fuji S5500.
(I still regret I sold that machine, I probably made some of my best pictures with it.)I was still taking photos with it the same way as to film: meter, calculate, decide what I want on the picture, and only shoot, when everything is in place, and I'm sure, the view worth it.
After a time I started to feel the need for something faster, and to be honest, I never liked the electronic view.
I got my DSLR body for birthday present from my family - Nikon D80. I was in love with that machine, and I'm still, but at about a month ago, I realized, why I nearly put photography to standby once again.
I wanted to evolve, to learn as much as I can, so I went to take photos on partys, shows, events, and nevertheless 'hunting' the pictures. I was watching around, to see something marvelleous, something exceptional to capture.
As time was passing I felt I'm doing something wrong. That I don't see things more, nothing interesting comes, and going to event photography made me feel a bit sick, that it's totally worhtless.
Some people dreams pictures, and makes a nearly ordinary shoot, sit down in front of Photoshop, makes the magic, and create something remarkable. This is art, but I think is nearly as far from photgraphy as painting.
For a long time I tried to
find spectacular things and moments. Lately I realised, that I'll never make adorable pic like this, only if I'm at some place exceptional.
So I decided a new approach:
imagine than
find.
Imagine something, than get your photo bag and go on a trip, search for your imagination. This of course stands only if the imagination is related to nature.