It took me the longest time to think of myself as a photographer. Photographers were people with studios where other people came to have their portraits done. Photographers were people who went places to take photographs.
Me? I went places that I would have gone anyway and took the camera along. Sometimes I took pictures. Sometimes I just went.
For example, I take walks after lunch. I take the camera along to make sure I keep my eyes open. One day last week I had just loaded the Yashica-D with a fresh roll of Kodak TMax 400. The lamp post insisted I take a picture of it.
A couple days later I was finishing my walk and had one shot left on the roll as I walked up to the door. This tree has been bugging me for a long time, so this day I gave in and took its picture.
I developed the roll yesterday morning and scanned it later in the day. The first and last shots on the roll were the first to get worked up and posted.
Steve