What single subject would you photograph?
A very interesting question was brought up by skipsinow on The Creative Forum. He posted a very interesting article about the photographer of the Pope. The same person has been photographing the Pope for the last 50 years. Photographing nothing else but the Pope. This prompted the question, if you could only photograph one subject what would it be? I had to think for a bit on this one.
I did come up with an answer though and it is flowering gardens. So I thought I would share my reasoning for this answer.
First, I am an avid gardener. My parents raised me around beautiful gardens and taught me tons about what works and what doesn’t in our area. Every time I go over to their house, these days, I am still amazed at how well their gardens do and how much variety there is. I still learn something new every time I go there. I have developed the habit of ALWAYS having my camera with me when I go. I can’t help but want to take pictures of all the beautiful flowers. If I visit once a week through out the Spring and Summer, I am bound to find new flowers popping up all over the place. Photographing their garden has almost become an obsession. As much as gardening is their obsession.
Their years of teaching me about gardening was not lost on me because my girlfriend and I have started to develop our own beautiful gardens. Each day we have to walk around the property just to see what is popping up and what is soon to open. Our gardens are growing slowly and each year we add a little more to them. The nice thing about my parents having such beautiful gardens is the fact that they can share so much of what they have. More than 75% of what is in our gardens has come from theirs. It is so much fun to share. We too have started sharing and now have seeds that we have sent to 5 different states across the country.
So as you can see the gardening bug has bitten and has made photographing gardens a fun hobby of mine. It’s not only myself that does the photographing, my girlfriend too loves to photograph flowers, insects and birds that are all part of the gardens. We both love the outdoors, love to garden and it’s only natural that our photography passions would follow route.
I would love to travel and photograph other peoples gardens. To be able to see how other people have their gardens set up and to see variety of flowers they have would be an awesome adventure. Traveling to other regions to see what they are able to grow would be educational and inspiring. I find that almost no one has a garden that is the same. Each gardener has a little piece of their own creativity that is put into their garden. From where their flowers are to what types they choose. This would make photographing gardens something that would never be boring and never be monotenous. Each time you start it would be new, fresh and exciting. I think I could definitely spend years photographing gardens.
So I pose the same question to you… What single subject would you photograph?
Some links to photos we have taken…
Cranesbill Geranium
Spring Time Flowers
Iris
Spring Blossoms
Bookmarking:
June 15th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
given the ability to photograph one subject, that would have to be either the sky, all forms, day, night, cloudy or not. I think there is such a vast variety of scenes and feelings invoked by the sky. Good question, glad you asked!
June 17th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
People, because it’s never monotonous. Probably not the Pope for me, but certainly important world figures or enduring entertainers. On iStock there is a user survey with random questions, one of mine was “If you could only take one more photo, what would it be of?” I thought “Elvis” was the right answer.