Chances are most will have already started their photographic journey.
Few humans, indeed the ones living or travelling in Australia, haven’t already started their photographic journey. Do you know anyone who doesn’t have a phone with an inbuilt camera? And who doesn’t use it regularly to record something they see? Even if all these people with mobile phones haven’t yet realised, they are photographers.
Being a photographer isn’t defined by the brand or type of recording device you use. It is simply the fact that you record images.
Good photographs are not defined by the equipment used to create them but by the vision of the human in command.
If you are reading this, chances are you have already commenced your photographic journey. No one can predict where that trip takes you or what you will see and learn during your travels. I can only tell you that your camera is a passport to adventure.
I want to tell you about some of my journey with a camera, or should I say cameras, because, over the fifty years I have identified as a photographer, there have been a whole bunch of cameras. Small compact cameras through to massive, cumbersome pieces of kit that held only one shot in the chamber, miss the shot, and it’s gone.
I tell my photo workshop attendees that I pack heavy and shoot lite. And then point out my preferred means of transport. An old 70 series Toyota Landcruiser Troop Carrier. Affectionately known as the Troopy, and from here on only referred to as the Troopy. The point is the cavernous storage area would be full of photographic essentials. Then I would pull out one camera and one lens and shoot all day with that and nothing else.
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