Photography thoughts

I am currently taking a photography correspondance course from the New York Institute of Photography. It was a bit expensive, but it seemed like they had a lot of good lessons and information that could help me.

I consider myself a photography enthusiast. I have been taking pictures ever since my grandmother gave me her first Brownie box camera. (How I wish I still had that one!) I was probably around 12 years old or so and even though it didn't have a flash, it was mine.

I now have a Canon 10d digital camera that I bought used from ebay. I decided that spending $500 to find out if I really had (or could acquire) the talent and inspiration that is needed to bring out the things I have in my mind was better than $2000 for the newest model with all the bells and whistles.

I am learning some things. Some I have picked up from the correspondance course, some I have figured out by looking at what I had taken and how it could have been done better.

I have been asked to provide some photos for the University I work for in their publications and news departments. I don't know if I will ever get anything published, but I am sending things in to them when I can. That has helped get me into thinking more about what they could use and less about just taking pictures of things just because I think they are pretty.

My long range goals are to get through my course, start asking around to see if any friends would model for me and eventually start a photography studio that I can use to take maternity and newborn pictures.

I really enjoyed taking pictures of my grandson when he was a baby. Mostly I took the monthly series of portraits, but every once in a while I would just start photographing him just doing whatever babies do.
Isn't he a doll. I even like his little elf ears. He is three years old now, and he is my buddy.
More on him in another post, I think.