My Camera, My Photos,an Amateur

The story of my camera

Writing Squidoo articles

Mount Cook
This is how it started. I began writing articles on Squidoo and was enjoying it immensely. However, I battled to find photos which I could use on my articles (hereinafter referred as lenses) and crediting them.

In my opinion half the joy of reading a lens is seeing the photos that come with them. So I started to talk to my wife about this and although she has no interest in Squidoo, somehow, I managed to convince her. Luckily, I also had a birthday coming up and she gave me a camera. I have loved it ever since.

What this meant for me, was that instead of spending hours looking for a photo I could use, I could now just take one myself and I found this a lot easier to do. So began my love affair with taking a few photos which I could include in my Squidoo lenses.

The purpose of this lens is to show you the photos that I have taken.

My Samsung NV24HD camera

My top ten favoutite Ireland photos












Swans in Ring where I live


The river running through Clonakilty


The Clonakilty post office


View from the Dunmore golf course


The seventeenth hole at Lisselaan golf course


A church in Glandore


The Clonakilty church spire in the evening


Fishing boats at the Ring quay


View from Rosscarberry golf driving range


Japanese garden in my home

Top ten holiday photos

Thailand, Australia and New Zealand












Ko Phi Phi in beautiful Thailand


The massage parlour at the swimming pool in Ko Phi Phi


The Monks ministry in Bangkok Thailand


A ship which brought the settlers to Australia in Darling harbour Sydney


The iconic Sydney Opera house, beautiful beyond words


A tranquil Chinese garden in Sydney


The loveable Australian Koala


The Gannet colony North Island New Zealand


A rare New Zealand bird the Dotterel nesting


Mount Cook and the Tasman glacier South Island New Zealand

A potpourri of ten random landscape photos

Love my Samsung NV24HD camera












Run off from the glaciers, you ever see a more beautiful blue?


The Taniwa iceberg on the Tasman glacier.


Nature on the Coramandel peninsula.


Swans the most graceful birds?


Landscaping the entrance to a town.


Africa another dimension, so beautiful, so wild.


A classic car in another setting.


Sailing, a lovely pastime?


Nature at it's best what a beautiful scene.


A monument for people who dare to go where you have never been before.

Samsung NV24HD camera

Photograhphy an Art

I'm a simple person and I like simple things. My lifetime background has been in the farming world. Art is a complete mystery to me and always has been. However I have enjoyed taking some photos with my camera. Does this make me an artist? I sincerely doubt it. Moreover the point I'm trying to make, is that in this highly computerised world, then every Tom, Dick and Harry is an artist. All you have to do is take a photo, be it with your cellphone or anything else. Welcome to the world of artists. But more importantly, why not tell a story about your photo? What's a picture without a story? Squidoo makes it dead easy.

Is photography art?

Why yes of course.


bulldogsturf says:

I think it takes more than a view and click some can and others can't


says:

i think so


PastorCher says:

Absolutely.


WriterJanis says:

I believe it can certainly be an art form.


Edutopia says:

Photography is art just like any other artistic medium. An artist, no matter the medium they work with, choose to include or exclude things to evoke certain emotions of thoughts and an adept photographer can elicit this just as well as any sculptor or painter or musician could.


CountrySunshine says:

I totally agree! Great photos make a story even greater. Well done!


crosscreations says:

photography is most definitely art, no doubt about it!


AndyPo says:

Yes, it can be. Anything created specifically to be displayed as "an expression or application of creative skill and imagination" (taken from the Oxford English dictionary) is art. Many of the photos I took in the physics lab at university were not art, because that was not their intended purpose, whereas most of the ones I have taken since are (even if they aren't very good). It's probably not "fine art" though.


sousababy says:

I have seen photos done tastefully and not quite so . . I believe it to be an art.


Donnette says:

Absolutely, it is often a reflection of one's inner self at the time


mrsroadrunner says:

Photography is very much art. However with photoshop and all those programs many people are using right now, who needs a camera?? I personally feel this is sad!!
Photography is art, so is computer art. I feel more people need to either advertise as either or. Do not confuse the two.
Some of us work with a paint brush, some use words, some work molding clay, some of us use a camera..... Though I find the true artists bounce from one medium to the other. A artistic mind refuses to be boxed up! Confined in other words.....
Mrsroadrunner


says:

Absolutely! No doubt about it.


Rewards4life says:

Some shots are so unique. Creative photography must be art!


paulalouw says:

yes, of course it is art.. its your creation, your eye and mind that saw and put these pics together... in fact in the art world today, photography forms an important part ... lovely spookie!


Joan4 says:

I agree with Ohme - and she's an artist!


OhMe says:

Oh yes, Photography is art and you are quite an Artist!


says:

Of course! From what I'm seeing here you are quite the artist!


ClassyGals says:

Yes, taking beautiful pictures makes you an artist. (must be beautiful, though).


annmackiemiller says:

YES IT DOES - it is an expression of what you see, think and feel just as valid as any painting. I only discovered that when I started to express myself through photography little over a year ago. Good on ya artist!


says:

Yes it is.


mbrownauthor says:

I believe photography is art, and every picture does tell a story.


Norma_Budden says:

Photography certainly is an art form! A photo can express so much more than many people realize and is also up to interpretation by the person who sees the image.


ajgodinho says:

Absolutely, it's a form of art and you get better at it with practice.


2ues says:

It can be but not everyone with a camera takes artistic photos. The art comes in seeing things and capturing them in the best possible way. I am still learning but a digital camera has given me the chance to photograph a scene as many times as I want to without the problem of paying to have all the photographs developed. I also like having the ability to crop photos.


charlino says:

Yes. Photography can be an art form, and a tool for creating art.

Pull the other leg.


CCGAL says:

Beauty being in the eye of the beholder and all that, I love photography but I also know that there's a lot more to it than just point and click. But I needed to balance this out, so I'm on the Pull the other leg side because, hey, somebody needs to be here. **grin**


Michelle1959 says:

Everybody has a certain amount of innate art to be manifested but a even a highly trained photographer's pictures won't match those of an artistic person. The unartistic one will meet requirements, yet charisma, eye framing et al won't be there. And just because one is artistic in certain areas, doesn't mean they're artists at everything. I've always loved your photos Spook - and would certainly call you an artist. I'd be very proud of the camera you have too - love the balance, clarity et al + your eye! Really enjoyed this lens - would't mind more like this. Thanks!


EditionH says:

Not everybody who takes a photo is an artist. But Joseph Beuys would belie that. Everybody is an artist according to him. Perhaps you need to read about the "Erweiterter Kunstbegriff" and the concept of "Social Sculpture" by Jospeh Beuys ? Anyway your tendency to reflect about your pictures and the making of them indicates that you could have been a typical artist already before you had the camera. :).

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