Besides for making money, would you mind sharing why you love taking pictures?
Please elaborate your answer as much as you can. it could entail some of your philosophy of photography.
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Each of us is a camera. We see life through our lens. We register life as a series of impressions on our heart. We process the impressions with our mind. Sadly over time the impressions fade. When we pick up a camera it becomes an extension of us. We still see life through our eyes, and also a lens. We register what we see on our heart and using our mind we seek to capture that image to a physical medium, with the hopes that others who will see the image will likewise walk away with the same impression on their hearts. Each of us have developed filters over time that effect what we see and allow in to our hearts. These life experiences can sometimes cut through the fog and allow us to see some small fraction of the truth and sometimes blind us to the beauty at our feet. If we are sucessful in our efforts the unique perspective we have obtained can be shared with others, in effect giving them a filter to use as they view their world. As a community we can allow others to view our small piece of the world around us and to witiness their visions which hopefully will inspire us. In the end when we turn to dust, the impressions which rested in our hearts will live on in the hearts of others who will find our images. In this way we defeat death itself, for we are what we feel, think and say and photography says it all. In the end it is not the physical camera, media, or lens that fail us but our limited imagination and our capacity to see.