PHOTOGRAPHY, you might think, is about taking photographs. For some people it is, but look at your fellow photographers, or in the mirror, and you realise that there are many other motivations too. Here are 11 to be getting on with. The intriguing thing is that more than half of them don’t necessarily involve taking pictures at all. Who do you recognise in this list?
Gadget addiction. Gadgets – things you can do things with – are often attractive, especially (it seems) to boys and men. Knobs to twiddle, levers to move, rings to twist, buttons to press. Cameras are gadgets par excellence. Old cameras are, I suggest, best of all. How can a touchscreen compete with the tactile appeal of a wind-on, a silky manual-focusing ring, or a click-stopped…