I've always been a big of a photographer wannabe, but never really made a serious effort to learn the craft. Over the past year or so, a combination of forces, primarily the need for a good camera to take photos for magazine articles, pushed me to buy my first "real" camera. By "real", I mean something more than your typical point-and-shoot that you take on vacation. As a precursor to a DSLR, I purchased a Samsung HZ50W, one of the new classification of "super-zoom" cameras.
As I said, the main reason for buying this was for magazine photos, but I quickly began exploring other uses. I became hooked on the camera, taking it with me everywhere; everything I saw looked like a photo opportunity. I became "that guy with the camera", ask my wife.
What's this have to do with health or this blog? How many times have you been somewhere outside, on a walk or a hike, and saw something photo-worthy but didn't have a camera? What if the purpose for being on the walk in the first place was to look for photo-worthy sights? That's how I've started to view my walks. Each walk is a photo walk, an expedition to look for new things to take pictures of. An interesting shadow, a ray of sunlight calling attention to a leaf on the ground, a bird sitting on a tree branch. I get so wrapped up in the hunt for a photo that I completely forget that I'm exercising. It's amazing how quickly 3 or 4 miles go by.
I thought I'd share some of my favorite "walk" photos below. If you want to see more, feel free to browse through my albums on Google+; I won't promise all of the pictures there are good, but some of them are great. I think you'll agree, I have plenty to do when I'm out for a walk!
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