Is photography your only passion?

Is photography your only passion?

  • Yes, and I am not a pro

    Votes: 10 7.1%

  • Yes, and I am an artistic pro

    Votes: 3 2.1%

  • Yes, but I am a commercial pro

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • No, and it's just a hobby

    Votes: 69 48.9%

  • No, but I am an artistic pro (What?)

    Votes: 11 7.8%

  • No, but I am a commercial pro

    Votes: 3 2.1%

  • Are you kidding?

    Votes: 44 31.2%
  • Total voters
    141
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Well it is for me, obviously, but I don't make any money from photography. I also try to classify professionals into two groups: commercial (wedding, magazine, etc) and artistic (well you know).
 
I don't see why it would be obvious.

Personally, I find it a very strange concept to have only one "passion." Many things are interesting, so I like many things. Can't do them all, but I can dream about it.
 
I thought that this was a "family show". Of course it isn't the only passion in my life, just the one that I spend a reasonable amount of money on. Passion is a very strong word, I am not sure that photography, despite the time and money which is devoted to it, is a passion for me, more a pastime. I have not yet got to the stage where I wake up in the middle of the night and reach out for my cameras, in lieu of something else. Perhaps I should aspire to a greater degree of dedication, RF hugging could become a sport.
 
I love lots of things; I make up a living doing a bunch of things (mostly photographic), but life is far too interesting not to have many passions.

I guess I'd say my greatest passion is making things; photographs, pie, stories, beer, houses- whatever. I find it interesting to note that three activities I am especially passionate about all blend roughly equal parts of science/math/chemistry and art/feel/finesse: brewing, baking, and photography. Making beer, bread, and prints all share a required understanding of the chemical process involved and a certain critical and creative feel for what you are doing. Fun.

Better living through chemistry!
 
Apart from Frances Schultz, who trumps the lot (and shares all of the others) there's also travel, cookery, motorcycles, Land Rovers... Oh, and writing, which together with photography, has provided my income for well over a quarter of a century.

I can't imagine anyone who is monomaniacal about photography, but equally, I've never been without at least one camera since 1966, or at least a dozen since some time in the 70s. In the same time I've been without a motorcycle (on and off) for several years (though I've had my current BMW for 25 years) and I've only had Land Rovers for less than a decade in total, in the 80s and in the 21st century.

Cheers,

R.
 
None of the above. Photography for me is far from being my only passion, but it is more of a pastime than a hobby. Balance is important, in leisure as in life, and one of the serendipitous things about photography is that it complements one of my other pastimes - travel.

Regards,

Bill
 
Photography is more than a passion lately... it is more of strange kind of sickness 🙂

However, I do have other passions, like music, old scooters (and ridding them), and architecture..
I love to go out on my scooter, take my cameras and shoot some architecture while listening to some music ehehehe

Regards!
 
My main thing is reading, writing, and teaching contemporary fiction. #2, in theory, is recording music. Photography is a very recent rekindling of a teenage interest, and it's coming up fast on the list.
 
There are interests, and there are passions. I have many interests, but aside from life in general and my family in particular, photography is my biggest passion. My old BMW motorcycles/motorcycling is a strong interest, but I would give that up before any of the others.
 
Are you kidding? But it is the one I have clung to for many, many years. Even though I am not as invovled in it as I once was, I just can't let it go completely. And I am getting more involved again, slowly.
 
For me it's records, and it only happened recently. I won a grant last winter to go to "DJ school." You can see a short documentary I made about it here:

http://www.vimeo.com/943491

In my class there was also a 65-year-old MTA motorman (who you can see in one of the shots) and a suburban housewife, so I feel pretty strongly that it's never too late to do stuff you want to do.
 
Now if the poll had dealt with obsession and you asked my wife.......
She likes to complain lately that I have as much gear as a pro.

I tend to go through phases rotating between photography, toy trains, woodworking, beer making. For years it was coaching my daughter's soccer teams.

Now that my youngest is graduating high school, we shall see what I do with my time.
 
Paraphrasing Roger, I've never been without a camera since I turned 7. Since I could drive, I've spent less than a year without a Land Rover. But I've absolutely never been without a dog. So I guess it is dogs, photos, and Land Rovers (apart from the obvious ones like family and reading).
 
Photography is big for me, but the only thing I do every day is bodybuilding, I guess because you have to if you are to be successful with it. Now developing, that is not very important, or so it would seem. After taking the photo, I almost lose interest.
 
After my family, my biggest passion is my work. Then comes photography, cooking, motorcycles, and other stuff. All this to intentionally distract me from work ....
 
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