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mariucaComment: Originally posted by marnet:
I don't know how you select images nor how you take them - just one off that caught your eye? You took numerous of this scene and you liked this one the best? Anyway, what I am trying to say that I like this image even if shows a dead animal. The composition is great with just the hand not to take away the attention from the octopus. The unpleasant angle of the head and then the surprise - bay leaf? I found it very interesting even if somewhat gruesome. |
Hard to answer to your question Margaret. First, I never take more than one shot when something catches my eyes. Therefore I might push the button at the very end of the fraction of the second of something that appealed to me or found interesting.
I think this makes me an impulsive photographer. The idea of taking more shots of a scene, more exposures, or using a tripod or arranging lights - studio photography in one word - is totally foreign to me. I started to photograph at a very early age, always for reference, for my art work although I don't draw or paint from a photograph. It's for a certain detail, a movement and more often than not, a flicker of light or a feel of a scene that I photograph. The things that might become invisible or fade in our memory.
I did not intend to show dead animals or morbid things but they are visible, they are around us. We stumble upon them. I do not look at a photo to feel good. If I saw a loaf of bread, a butcher, an octopus being cooked, a fish market, a flicker of light on a wall, I snap a photo. But by the same token, I have my limits: I cannot take photos of homeless people, of suffering children, of cruelty...etc I cannot be a war photographer.
I thank you for saying that "
I like this image even if shows a dead animal" We are here for photographs.
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