What sparked your interest in photography?

[Graham_of_Rainham]

[Bear]

Re: What sparked your interest in photography?

At about 9 or 10 years old I found an old Kodak camera of my grandfather's in a box of stuff my mother was throwing out. No idea what the camera model was but it is similar to a couple of those mentioned in previous posts in this thread. It still had a roll of film in it - 120 I think - I finished the roll and had it developed. Amazingly some of the pictures were usable and one I took, of a rose, I had printed and remains the only picture of mine I have in the house. Thus began a passion. I graduated to a Zenit SLR (don't remember the model) that I bought myself working over one summer in a local DIY store. This is where music photography took over my life. I smuggled my camera into gigs, took pictures, printed them and sold them to my school mates, even sold a few to the local papers and agencies. This gave me the money for a Yashica FXD Quartz and started my lifelong love affair with Contax/Carl Zeiss. When I started working, photography took a back seat for a while until I was in Singapore in the early '90's and a lonely, boring Saturday afternoon led me to an electronics emporium off the Orchard Road and I brought home an expensive collection of Minolta kit. This lasted a few years until I could afford Contax and the decade between '95 and 2005 was spent "investing" in almost everything that Kyocera could put on the shelves. When I retired in 2002 and moved to Spain, I had much more time on my hands and for the first time really started to develop my photography, moving to digital SLR's in 2004. The last few years have led me right back to where I started, taking pictures of musicians, for profit and enjoyment.

[ash]

Re: What sparked your interest in photography?

After taking a compact Kodak 2mp camera on my honeymoon 8 years ago nearly to the day ( I forgot our aniversary last week) and this being my first digital camera, I was amazed at the speed I could experiment and how digital could literally turbo charge your learning curve. Then Thomas was born the year after and just before that I wanted something a bit more serious for his birth and wanted to be sure I had quality shots for us all to look back on and purchased a fuji 6900.
This was my entrance into photography, I only wish I was passionate at a younger age and maybe studied at college in photography and media, ohh well!
Now you no, Ive been on this forum since I got the fuji 6900 and have learnt alot thanks to the speed of digital and you guys giving critique on this forum, cheers.
Ash.