Storm

A storm from the remnants of Hurricane Issac moves across the countryside.

It'd be a better picture, visually, if the telephone pole and wires were not there.  But they were there and so they are in this picture.

There are people who could do that, maybe change the colors a bit to enhance things.  They're artists.

I started taking color photos with a Canon FT SLR, shooting Kodachrome 25 and 64.  I had control over framing (with the old "two-legged zoom" lens) and focus, and I could set the shutter speed and lens aperture.  When I pressed the shutter, I got what I got (and you get really good at panning if you want to shoot moving objects with slow-speed film).

Given the expense of shooting Kodachrome, especially for a teenager, my approach for taking photos was kind of like going hunting with a single-shot rifle.   Depending on how many shots I was taking of different things, it could take a couple of weeks or more to shoot off a 36-exposure roll.  Then I'd have to wait for processing.

When I got older and went into the service, I shifted to Kodacolor print film, because I didn't have to carry a slide projector around.  I used the Kodak pre-paid mailers which meant that, depending if I was on a ship and where that ship was, it might take over a month to get the photos back.

So there was nothing like the instant feedback you get with a digital camera.  You had to know what you were doing and watch for things such as light poles coming out of the heads of people.  Because, unless you were taking photos of stationary objects, you weren't going to get a second chance.

Which is a long-winded way of saying that I'm not an artist.  I'm an amateur photographer and the picture that I take is the picture that I get.