What is on YOUR bucket list?

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Photographically, what is on your list to do/own/accomplish before you kick the bucket?

Before answering, remember that it is later than you think!;)

Here is my Top 10:

My Photography Bucket List

1. Change the world in some meaningful way through my work.
2. Learn various languages to facilitate photographic travels.
3. Meet my photo-centric friends while traveling.
4. Acquire a few cameras I missed along the way.
5. Become proficient and self-supporting in film processing with enough film in storage for life.
6. Learn platinum printing.
7. Catalog my photographic files, both analog and digital for my family.
8. Teach my grandchildren.
9. Capture the essence of love in a single photograph.
10. Allow the above list to evolve.
 
dave lackey said:
Photographically, what is on your list to do/own/accomplish before you kick the bucket?

Before answering, remember that it is later than you think!;)

Here is my Top 10:

My Photography Bucket List

1. Change the world in some meaningful way through my work.
2. Learn various languages to facilitate photographic travels.
3. Meet my photo-centric friends while traveling.
4. Acquire a few cameras I missed along the way.
5. Become proficient and self-supporting in film processing with enough film in storage for life.
6. Learn platinum printing.
7. Catalog my photographic files, both analog and digital for my family.
8. Teach my grandchildren.
9. Capture the essence of love in a single photograph.
10. Allow the above list to evolve.
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Dave, I'd never thought about this before, but I'd happily adopt your list too.

Especially point 1.
 
Just travel really, and photograph what I see, but I agree with mervynyan, journey is the main thing, photography is just a pleasant hobby while I'm there.
 
I was born the same year the USSR sent Sputnik into orbit. I now have a 4 year old son. Besides all the usual photo concerns, I'd like to be around to see him graduate college, begin a meaningful career of his choice, and hopefully see him find a wonderful life partner. I want to be experience a wonderful journey of this half of my life.
 
I have had some interesting journeys, and I regret not having taken a camera along with me. It is nice to be a le to tell stories, but it would be nice to have some images as well.

I would like to cycle across America (I have already hitchhiked across).

I would like to see the Mediterranean by boat.

I would like to walk Japan from one end to the other.

I would like to not have any regrets about things I didn't do.
 
Three things only, in fact.

First and foremost on my list is meeting some of the fellow RFF members that I have 'met' through this forum! Lem, Dave, Simon, Robert, Paul, Michael, I hope to one day shake hands (again)!

I'd also like to earn a living as a portrait photographer, an artsy-fartsy photographer and a serious documentary and editorial photographer. And do weddings too...

Third, publish an art book (partially handmade, small numbers only, hand-signed) with my work.


I'm not hoping to change the world (people are too stubborn in their ways in my somewhat bitter view) but at least hope to offer some consolation from brutal daily reality to those that see my feeble attempt to create art with a camera...
 
kbg32 said:
I was born the same year the USSR sent Sputnik into orbit. I now have a 4 year old son. Besides all the usual photo concerns, I'd like to be around to see him graduate college, begin a meaningful career of his choice, and hopefully see him find a wonderful life partner. I want to be experience a wonderful journey of this half of my life.
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My thoughts also (except that I was born a little before the lift-off of Gemini 7) as nice as photography is as a hobby and to document the life around me I don`t want to have my life around photography. :)
 
I think I might be younger than most of the people on this forum, and I don't yet have as much "experience of live" as most of here certainly do.

But there is one thing that I want : photographic prints. I want to be able to show my future children and grandchildren pictures of me, my family, my friends, my student life...

To many people only rely on digital files and Facebook today... But I've seen hardrives crash...and people lose all their photos.

I consider myself as a backup extremist (complete local backup + photos backed up on the Amazon Cloud), but I still want to have the photos that are most important to me as prints. They can always be viewed... but who knows if a Jpeg will have any value in 20-30 years...
 
I've had the great good fortune to achieve most of the fantasies I had and things that I wanted to do when I was young.

Those that I didn't, I have no regrets. I tried, and that is enough.

For the future, I plan to keep on dreaming, keep on going, keep on learning until my Time is all used up. Hopefully that will not be for some time yet.

Onwards!

G
 
I too have been fortunate enough to have achieved many of the goals I set for myself when young:
Published
Gallery represented
Shown in prestigious venues in numerous countries
Met and worked with famous people

That was all vanity. I'd trade it all for one more day to photograph my father and others i loved who are fone. Now I simply want to photograph the people I love.
 
Don't know if I would be happy knowing I would have to deal with a - long - target list; keeping my mind free of such a list is a nice goal in itself, since for me it is just a hobby and nothing else - keeps and frees my mind from other things. Sometimes I help others in servicing/repairing their old cameras which is quite rewarding in itself - anyhow it enabled me to shoot a lot of pictures with cameras I do not own, which I still like to do. In the mean time my collection of camera stuff has become quite dynamic in that it changes to quite some extent over the years which I really like: shooting as much with different gear as possible...
 
The last time I made a wet print was 1993. I want my own darkroom and start printing again.
 
1. Road trip to the Strategic Air & Space museum in Ashland NE.
2. Road trip to Albuquerque and Taos NM.
3. Road trip up to the badlands (Dakotas), turn left to Montana, turn left to Yellowstone and then turn left back to TX.

This all assumes I can still afford film and gasoline. :D

Kenny
 
When I was a kid my grandfather always had tons of stories to tell about his travels, how he wanted to be an actor and virtually ran away to Palestine with an Egyptian actress to follow his dreams, then witnessed the British operations there during WWII and ended up working at the airport in Beirut. He also had utmost respect for knowledge and culture, he spoke 4 languages and had an imposing library at home

My only wish is to lead a life as rich as his and live to tell the tale :rolleyes: :)
 
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