{"id":1396,"date":"2017-10-30T01:07:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T01:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kgphotoworkshops.com\/blog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2017-11-08T20:25:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T20:25:01","slug":"journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kgphotoworkshops.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/30\/journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Journey Into Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking through some old photographs recently and I ran across this photo (above) that I took when I was 17 years old. (It&#8217;s hard for me to believe that was 42 years ago!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kgphotoworkshops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/pentaxkx-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>I have loved photography since I was 16, when I started out with a Pentax KX 35mm film camera and several rolls of Kodachrome 64 slide film.\u00a0 I especially loved sunsets. I loved the colors and the &#8220;mood&#8221; of the sky as the sun went down.<\/p>\n<p>I quickly moved into all aspects of photography, experimenting with nature, landscape, portraiture, studio lighting, color and B&amp;W darkroom work.<\/p>\n<p>I shot this image at the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, at age 17.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kgphotoworkshops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KG_OLD_197-e1509324949435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think it is important for you to try different types of photography. <em>Even try things that you think might not be of interest to you.<\/em> Explore, experiment, learn, and grow. <strong>Get out of your comfort zone and try things that force you to learn new skills.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One piece of advice I give to all photographers is to not just keep doing what you have always done. If you do, you&#8217;ll keep getting what you have already gotten. Try new things.\u00a0 Make mistakes.\u00a0 Learn from your mistakes, and you will grow as a photographer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make it your mission over the next several months to try some type of photography that you have never tried before!<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking through some old photographs recently and I ran across this photo (above) that I took when I was 17 years old. (It&#8217;s hard for me to believe that was 42 years ago!) 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