Lens switch

I just thought the other day about my photographic start and i realized something interesting...
I was wearing glasses till i was 8 and you can see it on that first picture in the blog. And i just thought, - how interesting, - the same time i got my first camera i stopped wearing them. So i did lens switch which actually (and i realized this some years ago), i am sure, helped to sharpen my eye sight, especially for my right eye which is used for focusing camera lens.
My first camera though did not have proper viewfinder, it was just a glass which even did not tell the frame i will get in my picture. However this same camera, my first one...

... surprised me some years later when i decided to take it to my journey to Poland (in 1990 ties), instead taking my heavy Zenit 11 SLR. That was the time when lots of things changed around us and one of them was equipment and supplies for photographers. Before that journey i have never put color film in my first (Smena 8) camera because in Soviet days we practically did not have them (did not have normal good quality color films like Fuji or Kodak).
When i came home from that trip to Poland and developed my films, i was positively surprised by quality of pictures. I am sure that they were much better then pictures of those simple automatic cameras, they were nice and sharp and clear. And the value of this camera grew in my eyes and it is very dear to me now, as it is my first one and still in very good working condition.

The very Start

The very start, at age of 7, i guess

The thought of this Blog came to me as i was thinking about pictures i work on. There is always more pictures i take, then those i work on afterwards in some photo programs. There is often thought behind while taking certain pictures, seeing that this seen, or thing or moment could be useful to add to some thought (in a Blog or letter) or to some Slideshow later on, or that it could be as a good card to send to someone particular. And sometimes i feel that those "chosen ones (photos)" i work on, i want to describe a bit more, - to tell more about it than just giving a title to it or adding only couple sentences about it.

Some of these pictures which i will add to this Blog could be to do with my learning something new in photo editing or just sharing what i see as my progress in my photo journey. But some maybe will tell a story.

I think that this Blog is more for myself, to help me to see what i like in photography and to discover what i don't like in it, - observing photographic world around me. I have a feeling that in Today's photography, with all the perfection of new technologies, - always better cameras with more possibilities, better lenses and photo programs, pictures (photos) sometimes loses soul and what is left of it is just an outward beauty.

What i would like people to see in my photography is a Soul in the image, - to see them live and speaking to those who look at them. I don't know if i succeed in it (making my pictures to speak), but at least that is what i would like people to sense and that is what i am striving for.