Vic Vinegar
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I had to lose a significant amount of weight last year and ever since then, I have been more active all around. Now that I'm into photography, I have been on lots of hikes and on all my hikes I bring my camera backpack and my tripod in a little sling around my shoulder. everything weighs about 20 pounds and I love it all! And photography has helped me get in the mood to go on hikes. I'll huff and puff up a hill if I can get a nice landscape shot lol.
EDIT: Oh and just to add, I had a pretty traumatic back injury in high school and I had surgery in 2002 and 2009 and in 2009 I was very heavy. My doctor told me I would need another surgery in 5 years... and that was 6 years ago. I became addicted to vicodin and I finally understood those people who said they felt like taking their life because of their pain. I never wanted to do that, thank God, but I have compassion for them. Doing some poor man's yoga and back strength training helps me a lot and now I don't need surgery.
I have had ADHD and bipolar disorder for as long as I can remember and being able to get creative and silly with my camera is a great therapeutic tool. I have a lot of photos and then I have photos of my camera that I took with my phone, showing my very creative setup with the mirror board and the construction paper, etc.
Photography lets me do creative projects for the people in my life and that alone helps the depression episodes. Taking photos for myself is all fine and dandy, but when I show up at my cousin's house with a framed macro photo of a flower with her baby's name on it, that's what makes photography worth it.
EDIT: Oh and just to add, I had a pretty traumatic back injury in high school and I had surgery in 2002 and 2009 and in 2009 I was very heavy. My doctor told me I would need another surgery in 5 years... and that was 6 years ago. I became addicted to vicodin and I finally understood those people who said they felt like taking their life because of their pain. I never wanted to do that, thank God, but I have compassion for them. Doing some poor man's yoga and back strength training helps me a lot and now I don't need surgery.
I have had ADHD and bipolar disorder for as long as I can remember and being able to get creative and silly with my camera is a great therapeutic tool. I have a lot of photos and then I have photos of my camera that I took with my phone, showing my very creative setup with the mirror board and the construction paper, etc.
Photography lets me do creative projects for the people in my life and that alone helps the depression episodes. Taking photos for myself is all fine and dandy, but when I show up at my cousin's house with a framed macro photo of a flower with her baby's name on it, that's what makes photography worth it.
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