My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.
My father did advertising photography.
I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.
My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.
To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.
Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
I had been teaching myself photography.
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.