Your Photography Dream

James, thanks for asking. . . I'll e-mail you privately but some of the pictures I took are on my website under "Travel." --Sally

<p>Valencia Spain for Las Fallas!</p>

<p>...or any photo trip with my grandfather. He enjoyed photography and my grandmother still has all of his 35mm slides in boxes. I never met him b/c he died before I was born, so any time with him would be great..and sharing an interest in photography would be even better.</p>

<p>My Dad did some sea kayaking around the Queen Charlotte Islands in the early 80's while we lived in Massett with a K1000 and a bunch of Kodachrome. Growing up watching slide shows of abandoned Haida villages and foggy remote beaches left me with a desire to do the same.</p>

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<p>Getting paged at 3am to drive 2 hours to stand in the cold for 3 hours waiting for a warrant to examine/photograph/collect evidence in a crappy, roach-infested apartment where drug dealers lived gets old pretty fast.</p>

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Not all that different from a lot of what I do now. The "cold" is replaced by "hot," the "warrant" by a band being late, the "apartment" by "dive bar," and the "lived" by "sell." There's waiting in any job worth having.</p>

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<p>Valencia Spain for Las Fallas!</p>

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<p>I had to <a href="http://oddstuffmagazine.com/pictures-from-las-fallas-festival-2012.html">look that one up</a> Nathan. Wow, that would be something.</p>

"There's waiting in any job worth

having". +1 for what Jeff says here.

My dream is to be in the place where

waiting brings benefits.

<p>Spend a winter in the Antarctic with an 8x10 and some sort of transportation. And a jacket, I guess.</p>

<p>For me a sustainable job so that I can make choices to spend less elsewhere and maybe save more money up for travel where I can do more photography. Photog itself would receive the less money thou, it's for travel to get to places. Any old digital or film camera can produce a handful of nice pictures for any amateur .... In terms of hanging up the pictures, I don't have enough space, so they are mostly up to 16x12 the odd picture may be wanted by friends/family (for no profit) if they want a huge 20x30 I guess - 1 given to them so far ... Off a 6MP JPEG (Normal) not FINE but they were still prettty happy.</p>

<p>My dream is to have a 1/4-20 stud bolt on my walker or power chair when I need to. I could not have dreamt about the life I've enjoyed doing photography. Chance and random paths in life suite my nature.<br>

I didn't own a good camera until college where I took a 101 course. As sometimes happens in life, one person is all it takes to light the candle. I just happened on a young instructor fresh from RIT and Minor White. The rest of the photo department was also fine art oriented.<br>

Virtually everything I like to do and think about is wrapped up in the medium. A few other significant twists of fate and people kept the fire burning brightly. No doubt that that will continue.</p>

<p>I really could be on the road forever Photographing the landscape of the US. 35mm, Medium format, Large format, go! go! go! I would start in the pacific northwest, and just cover it all. Thing is, there is this funding issue that makes the dream, just a dream.</p>

<p>I am obsessed with travel and my current dream is to travel down to Patagonia by motorcycle and document the trip, the people and places along the way. My photographic dreams have generally been wrapped around travel dreams - one feeds and inspires the other.</p>

<p>I never have equipment dreams. I've never been obsessed with cameras or the technological side of image making. I love images - taking them, working to improve them, viewing them, and the connection to them and what they evoke. The capture devices themselves leave me cold, but I do concede that you need to have equipment that in no way limits you, creatively or technically, in realizing your vision.<br /><br /></p>

<p>1. The first human photographer on Mars. Even if it is a one way trip. I know for sure that a lot of people would see my single photos or panoramas and they would live a lot longer that I.</p>

<p>2. Expecting my rejection on age for #1, then to photograph the landscape in Antarctica that is emerging from under the ice. (And the occasional Space Alien that comes by for a quick musing of my presence.)</p>

<p>CHEERS...Mathew</p>

<p>Mathew, you could always hitch a ride with Sarah's friends.</p>

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<p>"Mathew, you could always hitch a ride with Sarah's friends."</p>

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<p>Just be careful it's not a Vogon ship. They have no tea.</p>

<p>Go back and once again relive the summer of 1968 with Ansel Adams.</p>

There are several exotic places that I would like to photograph. I travel a couple of times a year, so I hope to visit as

many of them as possible.

<p>Going to the same places I have always gone to, only now with a lovely and loving woman who is a recent addition to my life. (Hence the recent absences from the forum.) AND she will get up for those sunrise shots!<br>

I'm living the dream!</p>

<p>I would love to be able to make photos just as great as any pro (I'm an amateur). I want that professional look in my photos, an eye for good "photo design", so to speak.</p>

<p>I would love to be able to find spectacular motifs in my nearby surroundings on a regular basis, not just when travelling.</p>

<p>I would love to relive the summer of 68 along with E.J. and Ansel Adams.</p>

<p>Regarding equipment:</p>

<p>I would really like a camera which is much better on high ISO values than the one I have today (Nikon D300).</p>

<p>I would also really like a 16-85mm f/2.8 lens. When are you going to make that, you Nikon guys?</p>