Galen King

Galen is creative director of Lucid Design

I have been taking photos since I was 12 years old. In the early days I was always the one "documenting" school trips, parties, missions up the river, tramping trips etc. Friends said I was like a Japanese tourist but they loved sitting around flicking through the prints when they would come back from the lab. In those days it was a pretty exciting feeling waiting for the prints to come back. If we could afford it, we'd go with 1-hour prints but it usually took overnight or three days. There was this wonderful feeling of excitement when the little envelope arrived bulging with the snaps of another time in our lives. These days it is somewhat different. Gone is the anticipation; everything is now instant and we find ourselves taking not just one spontaneous picture but perhaps several. It's easy to just keep them all. While the anticipation is gone, I feel that the doors of creativity have opened and one can experiment more and learn faster. What works and what doesn't. When I was younger I had this philosophy that I only took photos with people in them. I wasn't interested in landscapes or nature shots. Things have changed. I love taking pictures of things that are sometimes too small to see with the naked eye at a glance or that perhaps go unnoticed. I love working with light in nature. I am big on taking photos of things "as they are". While I use lighting in the studio for product or art photography, I love to shoot subjects as they appear in "real life". As the balance swings from amateur and just-for-fun to "professional", I hope to maintain the enjoyment of taking photos and never make it just a job....

Galen King | Galen is creative director of Lucid Design