What made you want to be a photographer?

[Fade2]

What happened in your life to make you want to be a photographer?
Any certain event? Shot?

[timbernet]

What happened in your life to make you want to be a photographer?
Any certain event? Shot?



Getting dropped on my head as a child? ;-)


Honestly I don't know. I blame genetics. My two grandfathers were camera guys, my parents were both camera people - so I guess I came by it via DNA. My sister is also into it.

[august23]

No F'ing clue. I came on this site one day to find a compact P&S that would do everything in the world but make breakfast. I left after I got my answer. Came back a couple months ago to get a new one, got talked into buying a DSLR, and now I'd never even consider my life without one.

[Fade2]

I guess for me, after years of being told I had a face for radio!!
Thought I'd look better behind the camera than in front of it! lol
No really I was always the one in the family shooting all the pics and taking all the videos and just started loving it!
Bought a lil Olympus digital 3.3 meg camera one day and the rest is digital camera history!!!!
Not to mention I get to shoot some lovely women! :lol:
And sports!
Damn and sometimes I can't belive I get paid for doing this! (part time)

[calicokat]

It brings out the creative, artsy side of me. I have always been a math and science guy. Photography is a perfect balance between the technical and artistic sides of me

[Pete]

My mother's always been the creative one in my family. She plays the piano, paints, sculpts and does all sorts of arty things (including a bit of photography).

Unfortunately, I didn't inherit the genes for creativeness in that way, but I did get an eye for artistic appreciation, and it's that aspect of creativeness that I can express through photography.