1982 - My Hobbies Have Become My Career

By B. T.

"I have been blessed with the opportunity to express myself through my work, and my hobbies have become my career."

When he began to take photos with the family camera at the age of about ten, one of his playmates showed taught him how to develop a roll of film. Since that time, shooting pictures and developing them has become "a magical preoccupation." 

"What attracts me to photography is that I can maintain a direct contact with the product from the beginning to end using equipment and chemistry properly to get the statement made. I approach it in the same way a painter would approach his work except that I’m using a different medium." 

"To me it (b&w) is a more dramatic medium than color and I can control it better."

"For me the sale of photographs has not been an important factor. I sell my photographs occasionally. I had a couple of small exhibits, more for the fun of just having people see my work than to make money from sales."

"The kind of  things that I am looking for are not wildlife nature as such, but the effect of light and shadow on something of character. An old building, a chair or a piece of furniture. There is some kind of emotional atmosphere  taking place, creating a mood, and if I can capture it, I've got myself a picture. I tend to be attracted to things that have developed through age – people, buildings, old fences, doors."

"I have taken some lab courses. But the only ones which really excited me were the courses which dealt with why we take a picture, what we are looking for and how to create some kind of artistic tension in a photograph so that it has some particular personal statement. It's the philosophy of photography courses that has interested me most."

"I find that when I direct for TV, the photography background that I have becomes very exciting and a creative area for me."

Q: "If you could choose one of your interests as a career what would your preference be?"

LN: "I wouldn’t want to give any of them. They are all so rewarding in different ways."