I'll always be an amateur photographer.
Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.
As soon as I had the camera in my hand for the first time, I just fell in love.
It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.
My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.
I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
My iPhone stays on. All my friends and family know that I hate the phone, so no one calls me on it. I just use it to play Words With Friends and take pictures of cute shoes.
I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.
Do you have a camera?" Jackson asked. "We could get some pictures and may be take a print or two if we're lucky." Jonas shook his head. "We'd probably get a bunch of ghosts and that would just freak me out.
I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.
I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.
I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.
Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.
In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.
It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.
Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
I love to take pictures of my food.
I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
I would say, if I had any hobbies, I love photography. I love taking photographs.
I always took pictures, but about five or six years ago, I started taking more behind the scenes at SNL, and now I have some 60,000 photos sitting on my laptop.
