Every now and then I come across something I feel I NEED to learn and master. These things can be anything basically. One of my previous weird obsessions was insatiable need to learn all phobias there was in the dictionary.
So, I memorized them. All of them. Though, not like I remember all of those anymore, but quite a few still. Knowledge stays in my head for certain time, if I’m not using it, it fades. And not like I need to use the fact that ornithophobia is fear of birds even if I hate pigeons.
Objects of these obsessive needs haven’t been similar. Okay, many of my obsession have been cooking /baking related, but I’m considering them being more like occupational hazard than actual obsession for useless knowledge, but that’s about it when talking about similarities of these fixations.
Beside kitchen related fixation there is just pile of random stuff, without good explanation why I felt need to master them. Usually those things haven’t even been that useful. Though, if I may, and lol this is my blog so I may, I’m going to query
Useless information is what makes me appear smart to people who don’t know me. So, useful for me :D
I think that is good enough reason to study and learn things. At least you appear smart.
Obsession for beauty
I don’t consider myself as a photographer. But I consider myself of lover of beauty and peculiarities. Photographing is just something that came along, not too long ago. I’ve had DSLR also before, Nikon, but that unfortunately got broken during my trip to France. Went years, and I just didn’t get new one. I thought I would manage with nice phone camera because I’m not a photographer. And I did manage, a long time.
There is a huge downside of hanging with people who love to take photos. Beside the all and mighty FOMO, is that you start to observe your surroundings in very different way. More you look the more you see. The more you see, the more badly you want to capture that moment.
I get that when you see and experience unimaginable beauty, you want to share it, as you felt it. This is also why I’m not against using editing tools or photo manipulation. It is one thing to have breathtaking sunset, but how you feel it, is something camera can’t capture. So sometimes you need enhance pictures in order to tell the story you want to.
I know that those photographing friends of ours are fed up with our ’why’s and ’story telling’s. But I’m not giving up. There is reason why some photos, art, writing what ever appeals to us more than others. There is something in there that makes us feel it is special. What is it? It is your personal thing.
Obsession for motion
Or more like illusion about it. I’m not even sure what it is that intrigues me so much about time lapses and hyper lapses but I could watch them in the end of the world. Depth of quality photography combined with unrealistic passing of time. That is just something that appeals to me. Even when I enjoy beauty of gorgeous sunrise and sunset photographs, they miss something, movement.
Without movement I feel like I’m missing something.
So, now you know my secret obsession. Or at least, one of them… I want to learn how to catch that magic with my camera and edit it in way it shows my story and world through my eyes. Piece of cake!
Or was it?
I had to do some gearing up (again) even if I promised to myself that I’m not doing that for a while.. Sorry future me who’s paying bills… It was an accident, or something. You can come up your own lie in here!
I ordered some filters and timer remote, because canon has only video build in for time lapses and I want to have still images. Timer being the crucial purchase. I also got some cheap grey filters and C-Pol filter just to see if they’d work for me. Illusion of movements is also why I like long exposure pics and really need to see if that grey filter will kick up a notch of my long exposures.