I used to be mad about Photography. Anything that I used to see, I wanted to capture on my camera. I wanted to go out birding and take a lot of photographs of birds. I loved experimenting with the camera and its settings and see in how many different ways and angles could I capture the subject at hand. However, all those feelings are long gone now. I am slowly losing interest in Photography.
I think the main culprit could be a lack of motivation. I don’t own an SLR, but I long for the image quality of an SLR. My Panasonic FZ50, though a good camera, cannot match the speed and response times of an SLR and just cannot compare in terms of image quality. Whenever I take any photo enthusiastically and later sit down to review it on my PC, I am extremely disheartened and that is the main cause for the lack of motivation. Time and again when photos don’t turn up the way I want them to, I feel there is no point of me photographing any more. Why spend my time photographing something when I am not going to like the end result.
The next reason could be lack of enough photography outings and even there, the lack of enough time to take photographs slowly and at my own pace. Face it, everything these days are commercialized and extremely expensive. Even wildlife conservation seems to be commercialized. If I want to go out to some forest resort and want to spend time observing and identifying birds, then I should be prepared to shell out in excess of Rs. 2500 per night towards accommodation. Travel expenses to and from the place are an additional extra. On other other hand, during vacations, the onus is always on covering the maximum number of places possible and hence there is really no time to sit and admire a place and slowly spend time photographing it. This is especially irritating when one goes in a group and then you have to run around with everyone and have very little time to spend actually looking around, but you spend more time finding where the rest went so that you don’t lose track of them.
When such is the situation, then where is the time to enjoy photography?
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