Photography

A photograph is the pause button of life.

When I was in my early teens my parents bought me my first digital camera for my birthday. It was a Fujifilm, but I can't remember much more than that. I'd previously had one of the point-and-shoot cameras, where you take the film to the shop to develop. In the years since then, I've had several cameras, both smartphone and digital, finally ending up with my trusty Lumix G1, which is a bridge camera (it can go fully manual, as well as just being pointed at an object and 'click').

Andy bought me the body of my Lumix back in August 2017, and I bought the bag and the lens for it. I did buy a cheap knockoff camera tripod soon after I got my first job here, but got a lovely new, good quality tripod for Christmas, from my father-in-law. I've used it a couple of times since then... the weather hasn't allowed me to use the tripod as much as I would have liked but since I've been on Annual Leave this last week, I've been able to take the camera and tripod for a few walks. I've put the photos I've taken this last week into a third album on my blog (the link is here).

The biggest reason I love photography so much that I find that photos give so much more description to what I'm trying to say. Often the photographs we remember the most, the photographs that haunt our collective memory the most, are the ones we can't put into words. Since the birth of the photograph, we have been able to bare witness to some greatest and most heartbreaking moments that the world has had to go through.

Since the birth of the smartphone camera, we see that everyone has become a photographer. Everyone can take photos of the world around, which has led to boom of photo-based social media apps, like Instagram, which has thus led to a rise in social media influencers. So many of us know the power that these influencers have over their followers. One record that has sprung up with the birth of Instagram is how fast a certain celebrity will take to hit one million followers.

For the foreseeable future, I'm hoping to keep adding my photographs to the albums on my blog. So do feel free to check out the photos that end up being posted there... you can also check out my Instagram account (@ink.stained.thumb), if you're interested in seeing some of the photos I've been taking with my mobile.