Tough to say really... I think it's a combination of things: A love of machines and gadgets, a love of physics and optics, and a desire to record things I see that I think are beautiful. My dad had an old film SLR in the bottom of his wardrobe when I was young that I'd take out and fiddle with, finding out how it worked. Every so often, I'd put film in it and try to take photos but they always came out horribly... I think the lens was shot.
Another factor is that it's the only thing I've ever been even remotely creative at.. it's the only thing I can do that is even nearly beautiful or artistic. Although I often feel like a fraud on that front... sometimes I get shots that are quite nice, but they're invariably due to a fairly rigid application of logic, rules and principles. Even my creativity is fundamentally 'left-brained'.
Mr Guy,
I hope I'm not speaking out of turn, but you may be right about being diagnosed with a condition... what you describe sounds a bit like autism, probably autistic spectrum disorder. I'm certainly not an expert, and you should take my comments with a barrel-load of salt, but I've worked with a couple of kids with ASD and recognise a few traits, some of which I have myself, although it's very mild in my case.
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