It's a semi-professional hobby, I'd say. I don't get paid, but I do concert photography and artists interviews for a music blog I created. I like to document events, and collect visual memories.
I started photography for "fun" at first without any intention to pursue a career or even developing a skill. I had got a film camera for my tenth birthday. I didn't do much with it. Then I started taking more pictures when my mum bought a video digicam that could also take pictures. With my brother and I filmed and took pictures of about everything for fun on holidays mostly. Later, my stepdad gave me his old Olympus digicam when he upgraded to the DSLR tech. I kept on taking pictures to collect memories of my life (parties, holidays...). I decided to get a "better bridge camera" which had more megapixels but it was not really that better (some Fujifilm fine pix s2950 or whatever model it was).
I got more serious about it after I got my first DSLR in 2014 kind of out of luck... When I had just started working, I showed some pictures that I took for fun to a colleague... then he told another colleague I could take pictures. So, I was asked to take pictures at a colleague's wedding after her photographer bailed on her a few days before the wedding. She ended up paying the camera I had bought for the occasion.
It's a semi-professional hobby, I'd say. I don't get paid, but I do concert photography and artists interviews for a music blog I created. I like to document events, and collect visual memories.
I started photography for "fun" at first without any intention to pursue a career or even developing a skill. I had got a film camera for my tenth birthday. I didn't do much with it. Then I started taking more pictures when my mum bought a video digicam that could also take pictures. With my brother and I filmed and took pictures of about everything for fun on holidays mostly. Later, my stepdad gave me his old Olympus digicam when he upgraded to the DSLR tech. I kept on taking pictures to collect memories of my life (parties, holidays...). I decided to get a "better bridge camera" which had more megapixels but it was not really that better (some Fujifilm fine pix s2950 or whatever model it was).
I got more serious about it after I got my first DSLR in 2014 kind of out of luck... When I had just started working, I showed some pictures that I took for fun to a colleague... then he told another colleague I could take pictures. So, I was asked to take pictures at a colleague's wedding after her photographer bailed on her a few days before the wedding. She ended up paying the camera I had bought for the occasion.