Since it feels like time to update the journal, here's part of a meme I answered over @ Livejournal, explaining my attitude towards photography:

I think that what perhaps most defines me as a photographer is that I started out with a complete focus on drawing and, to a lesser extent, painting. To me, photography is not primarily a means to documenting the world as it is, but instead just another way of creating pretty/scary/interesting/whatever pictures. That's why I'm as far from a photography purist as you can get. I gladly apply massive amounts of photoshopping to photos, if that makes them look more like what I picture in my head. In a sense, photography is a way of painting for me. It's a 'quick' way of getting the basic shapes down, but then comes the painting/editing.

I'm also not particularly good at photography. (For one thing, I personally thought 'Vampish' was the best I'd managed so far. Other people seem to think it sucks though. And no, that wasn't meant as a pun.) But I am trying to improve. I want to focus on mastering landscape/nature photography now, but I've had to stay close to home this summer and so haven't been able to practice much yet. *pouts*

You know, I am SO jealous of all those photographers on DeviantArt who have nice, symmetrical features and just in general look hot and photogenic! They're like... born with the perfect model, available at all hours of the day! So unfair! *pouts* On the other hand, I do get a lot of photoshopping practice.


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