"You have it with you all the time"

    Yes, I do. When I go out with my friends to visit different places, they don't event take their camera with them anymore. I wonder why? I'm not as crazy about photography as the girl in the picture (not my work), but I love it.     Weirdly enough, last week after I started working on this project I decided to talk to my friend Taras, who is my old friend from Ukraine and a photographer. The first thing he told me, was that he decided to explore his career as a photographer even more. I didn't really understand what he meant at first; but all that meant was that he started taking pictures of different events such as wedding, graduation and many more. Isn't that cool? You make money while creating art and enjoying the party! I would love that, too bad I'm in a business major...! Anyways, what I meant to say is that as a photographer there is always a way to grow and explore.   

This picture was taken by Taras, as I said my friend and photographer. In my previous post I described how why I love taking photo's this much. I can tell you right now that this is an exact example why. I think you don't even need words. Everything about this photo is perfect. At least, it seems to be so.

How it all started

I'll begin where it all started for me.  I remember I liked to be in a picture, but never had I thought I would be the one walking around, taking pictures of almost everything. I can only guess how many people make money by taking pictures, for me it's just a hobby. However, starting this hobby made me realized that for some people photography is not just another picture they can post on Facebook or MySpace, it’s a captured moment with a deep meaning behind it. Adam Ansel, famous American photographer for his black-and-white picture, he said that  "You don't take a photograph, you make it."

    I took this picture a few years ago; looks like just a heart on a pavement but I remember that it took some feelings to actually make it feel the way it does. Why I like this photo is because it makes me think, was this drawn by hand or did it appear by itself. Did it ever happened to you that you look at the picture and later realize that you can stop staring? It happened to me. Even with this one; every time I look at it I can stop but stare for some time.

    Taking pictures, not only help me learn more about it, but also helps me tell the story of something. You can't always tell the story in words; that's why in my opinion you need a camera and a good shot to show something.

    We are surrounded by photography, many art pieces are also created with the help of a camera. Photos help to capture, that one moment that can't be recreated any other way. This picture to the right is one example of that. I took this picture to show something that human eye cannot see on everyday basis, only camera can recreate it.
     Not so long ago, when I was still a kid and lived in my home country which is Ukraine, cameras only started to become very popular. My family had a camera that already took color pictures, but some families didn't even have camera's that take black-and-white pictures. Today, you can do anything with a picture. You can give it a color, you can make it black-and-white and much more.  The picture on the bottom is also one of my pictures. It's a colorful one, even though I love black-and-white pictures; this photo shows more life and a good example how camera's became more popular and more. In this blog I want to talk about photography, mostly mine and how I feel about photography.