As an outdoor photographer, I suck. While some of it may have to do with my lack of a photographer’s eye, not one lesson in photography or image composition, or even my innate dearth of artistic ability … I’m going to place the blame on my equipment instead; My camera kit consists of a Virgin Mobile Kyocera, with scratches on the cover where the lens is.
Honestly, I can probably take better pictures with my Jeep by putting it in reverse and waiting until the backup camera comes on.
I would love to be good at taking pictures of the places I go, so that I could share them without the embarrassment of having to say “yeah, that’s my thumb” or “the mother and her cubs are juuuuuuust over that rise, behind the tree” or “my cell phone doesn’t have a flash.” I do take photos. They’re just not of anything even close to what I’d call ‘quality.’
I’m a big fan of guys like G. Dan Mitchell and Cat Connor who take amazing pictures, and I’m impressed by photographers like Larry Griffin and Jaime Harris as well. Continue reading