why do we fall?

"....so we can learn to pick ourselves back up..."

a line from one of my more favorite movies.  a movie that means a lot more to me than just a childhood superhero movie coming to life, and done extremely well.

the Batman Begins series has been one of the greatest trilogies i've seen and although not widely popular due to it's dark nature and harsh overtones, i find the movie incredibly deep and a joy to watch every time i rewatch it over and over again.




i guess the quote could be applied to many things in my life these days but what inspired me to write about this has to do with my love / hobby for photography

     

now... i am by no means a professional photographer... hell i wouldn't even consider myself an amateur photographer because there is so many things i have yet to learn about photography that i can just call myself someone who loves to look at beautiful things.

i guess what drives my love for photography is my want and desire to capture the amazing moments in life in a still photograph.  the challenge to this obviously cannot be understated.  from exposure settings, color, framing, focus, proper equipment, and probably the most challenging of all is capturing THE moment.  the moment when you have your camera and your lens positioned perfectly to capture the action happening right before your eyes.  that is what makes photography so fun for me; moments like these are fleeting.  they happen in an instant and are gone and you are left with the want or desire to try and recreate that moment but know fully that it will never be as perfect as when you just witnessed it unscripted.


there have been many moments i've missed, and there are only a handful of moments i've captured.  these elusive events are what drives me to carry my camera around with me whenever i can and as of late... i haven't been doing that.  i think it had to do with the fact that she may have tried to be a part of this hobby of mine but never fully appreciated, or even tried to understand why i did it.   just leaves a sour taste in your mouth you know?  but lately i've been able to pick up my camera more and more and i think tonight i have a good opportunity to capture something i've wanted to for quite some time now but never really had an opportunity to.

i know i've written about this in the past.   my hobby with photography is cyclic and i get into it for a while, learn something new, and then put it back down again.  so this is nothing new and will most likely get shelved again in the distant future in time for another post like this to come.  just my way of saying hello again to an old friend.   each time photography has come and gone i've learned something new.

upgrading from a point-and-shoot to an SLR
  ->  

"bokeh"


shooting at night


learning to use wide-angle for dramatic effects


black and white


HDR


Sunsets and Sunrises
  

to going back from SLR to a high-end Point and Shoot
 

and Flash Photography


i hope to improve on everything i've learned and hopefully learn a few new tricks along the way... still in the middle of reading my photography book, and hopefully i'll be able to post some pictures later on this weekend on the shots i've taken.

as i said before, photography is a cyclic hobby of mine.... it does fall down on my priority list every now and then but it never goes forgotten and i look forward to each time i pick up my camera again that i become just slightly better than when i last put it down...