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Help! How do I stop?
My name is Gaz, and I'm a photoholic.
I...I knew I shouldn't. Really I did. But the camera was cheap, and I needed something just to record details of work. That is all. I didn't want it to become a recreational thing. I didn't know there was a chance it could take over. There's no warning on the box!
It started well enough. Pictures of work. What a job looked like when I started. How it looked when we had done it. Just archiving stuff. Nothing kinky, nothing artistic.
But...but then I started to notice *stuff*. The way the light played on a leaf, the way a shadow fell on a fence. The different colours at different times of the day. And I'm sorry. I started to take photographs of it. I feel so dirty....
And then, dear lord, I bought *another* camera. And it wasn't a common one, a *street* one. This was the hard stuff. The good shit. Oh gods, I got a DSLR. There. I said it. And I can't put it down!
Every day, when I take the dog for a walk the first thing I reach for is the camera. Okay, sometimes I take the bridge camera, believing I am cutting down, but always, ALWAYS, I grab a camera. Sometimes I'm half way home before I realise I forgot to bring the dog...
And it is getting worse. When I started it was just one or two. I knew I could give up any time I wanted. Now...I am taking fifty a day, and it is getting worse. I can't stop, people. I JUST CAN'T STOP!
So, I'm Gaz, and Im a photoho...oh, just a sec, I want to get a pic of the sun on that bus...
I...I knew I shouldn't. Really I did. But the camera was cheap, and I needed something just to record details of work. That is all. I didn't want it to become a recreational thing. I didn't know there was a chance it could take over. There's no warning on the box!
It started well enough. Pictures of work. What a job looked like when I started. How it looked when we had done it. Just archiving stuff. Nothing kinky, nothing artistic.
But...but then I started to notice *stuff*. The way the light played on a leaf, the way a shadow fell on a fence. The different colours at different times of the day. And I'm sorry. I started to take photographs of it. I feel so dirty....
And then, dear lord, I bought *another* camera. And it wasn't a common one, a *street* one. This was the hard stuff. The good shit. Oh gods, I got a DSLR. There. I said it. And I can't put it down!
Every day, when I take the dog for a walk the first thing I reach for is the camera. Okay, sometimes I take the bridge camera, believing I am cutting down, but always, ALWAYS, I grab a camera. Sometimes I'm half way home before I realise I forgot to bring the dog...
And it is getting worse. When I started it was just one or two. I knew I could give up any time I wanted. Now...I am taking fifty a day, and it is getting worse. I can't stop, people. I JUST CAN'T STOP!
So, I'm Gaz, and Im a photoho...oh, just a sec, I want to get a pic of the sun on that bus...
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I know the feeling all too well!
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As always Gaz, you have made my morning! 
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Every day, when I take the dog for a walk the first thing I reach for is the camera. Okay, sometimes I take the bridge camera, believing I am cutting down, but always, ALWAYS, I grab a camera. Sometimes I'm half way home before I realise I forgot to bring the dog...
I loled! And you wait until you can't get through a day without taking at least 150-200 photos!
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Excellent!!! Nice one Gaz!!
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Lol good one Gaz - and aint it good fun
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