What (if anything) would make you give up photography ?

[daveleo]

Originally Posted by Calzone

I was a painter for over a decade, but I gave it up because of always having to move around and not having stability in my life. Photography is more conducive to my lifestyle which dose not require a large studio/work space.

For health reasons I may have to stop shooting in cold weather and will likely have to remain more or less indoors all winter. In short, the cold will allow a rare disease to advance that will adversely effect my vital organs and shorten my life.

I'll likely do some "wood shedding" with a guitar this winter and get some chops, smoothness and work through a lot of music theory during the cold months. I expect with the mild weather renewed passion for photography.

Seriously for those posters who say death: life is better than photography.

Cal

Cal,

I am just catching up on this thread and read your posting.

Comes winter let's start a "Winter's Blues" thread and see where it goes. In winter, I do 100% table top pictures in my basement. "The entire universe is only what you see in the viewfinder".

I tried painting . . . "forget it".

Snowblowing the driveway is my one outdoor task in winter.

Comes December, remind me . . . . "Winter's Blues" . . .

[ddutchison]

Originally Posted by daveleo

...Comes winter let's start a "Winter's Blues" thread and see where it goes. In winter, I do 100% table top pictures in my basement...

your comment reminded me that during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, Joseph Sudek stayed home and photographed still-lifes for the duration. If anyone thinks still-lifes are dull (I used to), look up Sudeks, they'll change your mind.

I guess as long as I can see something, there's something to photograph, and maybe even if I can't. "blind photographer" yields over sixteen million results on google, and Gerardo Nigenda's work is vastly better than the majority of sighted photographers, so Death is the only thing that is going to stop me from taking pictures.

[Tijmendal]

Originally Posted by DamenS

Natalie Portman.

Agreed. This or a disability

[Calzone]

Originally Posted by daveleo

Cal,

I am just catching up on this thread and read your posting.

Comes winter let's start a "Winter's Blues" thread and see where it goes. In winter, I do 100% table top pictures in my basement. "The entire universe is only what you see in the viewfinder".

I tried painting . . . "forget it".

Snowblowing the driveway is my one outdoor task in winter.

Comes December, remind me . . . . "Winter's Blues" . . .

Dave and Paul,

Not sure if you have followed other threads, but I bought a M9M and will face a very steep learning curve exploring digital for the first time.

Also began shooting more and developing less. At this point I have about 80 rolls of film in the fridge that need development.

I have thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of images to edit through over the winter, and this is going to be a major huge task.

I have had a very disrupted life so not shooting for a winter is really no hardship. I still strongly identify myself as a photographer, and I am more passionate as ever.

One great thing about my health crisis is that I know that I have the love, support and understanding I need to get through this time.

At this point its still early, and only last week I went for a test to confirm the diagnoses of Mixed type 2 Cryoglobulenemia. If the diagnosis is validated at this point all is required is careful monitoring because other than the bluing of my hands and exposed skin due to blood circulation loss I have no adverse symptoms, and know that this only happens in the cold. These "Blue Attacks" could be due to the Cold Aglutinin Disease that already has been confirmed over 3 years ago.

Cal

[Seraj]

Natalie Portman? That would just inspire me to greater and greater heights in photography!

I've often thought of this, probably some form of disability is all I can really think that would truly stop me.

[SausalitoDog]

Some physical issue that stopped me... That's about it

[Cold]

For me, unlike many here, photography is a passion born of another passion. It's something I developed (pardon the awful pun) an appreciation for as I used it as a tool to document other aspects of my life. As I did obsessive product research (as I do for any relatively large purchase) I realized how deep and involved photography could actually be, and how it offered everything that the tinkerer, gearhead, wannabe-artist, and counter-culture misfit inside me wanted in a hobby.

So while I love photography, and would miss it if I had to give it up, for me, it's a bit like starting to date your second high school girlfriend. Same excitement at the beginning, but if it were to end, you know you'd survive.

Oddly enough, the shortest answer for what'd make me give up photography has already been mentioned:

Originally Posted by cjbecker

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