Comments on: why am i a photographer?

by: Denise

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:26:24 +0000

beautiful words, extremely touching

by: amanda

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:44:03 +0000

Hi Jeanette,
Your writing and photography is so inspiring and thought provoking.
I discovered you on Flickr and love your work and now Ive found your blog and am amazed again.
I will be adding you to my links and coming back!

by: Anna

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:50:06 +0000

Just read this, and loved it. You say it so well, and it seems to be just how I feel.

How was the workshop, would you recommend it?

by: Liz

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:28:39 +0000

Thank you for this post. I just randomly found your blog and when I read this I wanted to cry. I am a photographer for many of the same reasons you are. I, however, am an amateur, just learning but soaking up every little bit of information possible (I don’t even know if I’m allowed to call myself a “photographer”). I take pictures because I have a terrible memory and because I have suddenly found that through photography, I can remember details and I am a creative person! I have never been a creative person. I can see a beautiful horse in my head, but if I try to draw it on paper, it ends up looking like a bowl of spaghetti or a stick figure dog (like everything I try to draw). Anyway, with a camera in hand, I’m suddenly an artist and it feels good. Thanks for putting into beautiful words something that I could only dream of expressing so perfectly.

by: Autumn Fawn

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:10:12 +0000

just wondering where and how you are friend. may times be good.

by: Naomi

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:11:58 +0000

Like so many have already said before me…your words are exactly what I am feeling right now. I am new to photography and really been struggling for the past month or so as to whether or not I should just give up. I was so touched by your writing. So many photographers have told me that photography is not something you can learn it is who you are but you have shown me that with time and practice I can get what I see to come out of my camera. When I look around I can see the pictures. I just need to learn my camera better so that they come out the way my eyes want them to be seen. Does that make sense?

Your writing was beautiful. Thank you for sharing and giving me hope.

by: Sofia

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:15:26 +0000

Beautiful answer! I can relate to so many of those things. I, too, so LOVE this sentence “There was nothing in my life that was not a photograph waiting to be taken. Nothing.”

by: Lottie

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:29:12 +0000

Beautifully written Jeanette, you are indeed the queen of eloquence.

“There was nothing in my life that was not a photograph waiting to be taken. Nothing.”

Fantastic.

by: Anya

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:42:52 +0000

Your words ring so true. I have personally been thinking about this very same question lately. And although my path is different, the internal feelings are similar. So glad I clicked on your blog (linked from flickr).

by: Jeanine

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:38:40 +0000

Thank you for this beutyfully written, honest statement of yours. Not only are your pictures really georgeous and your writing is showing a special kind of spirit as well. You are a true artist from head to toe.