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02/17/2019 06:08:57 PM · #26 |
| Bill, you're turning me into a plagiarist lol |
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02/17/2019 07:16:59 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
Bill, you're turning me into a plagiarist lol |
Oops. Cut and paste is as bad as autocorrect! Fixed! |
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02/17/2019 10:44:33 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by wbanning:
Originally posted by posthumous:
Bill, you're turning me into a plagiarist lol |
Oops. Cut and paste is as bad as autocorrect! Fixed! |
I'm just glad someone else relates to the gorilla with the suitcase. :) |
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02/17/2019 10:56:52 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
I take photos because I am still in awe of what a camera can do. It is a magnificent achievement, and I do everything I can to twist it and subvert it. I am like the gorilla with that suitcase, but also the person watching the commercial, amazed at the punishment that suitcase can take. |
perfectly speaks for me. |
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02/18/2019 08:49:46 AM · #30 |
| To express appreciation of the world. To celebrate the overlooked. To kindle a glow. To bring folded paper to flower in the water of post-processing. To hopefully please some people. To reinforce humility. To take the eyes on a stroll. To take mean to task. To strew breadcrumbs of memory. To live within and drift without. To enchant the moments before sleep. To help my dog be patient. To say thank you. |
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02/18/2019 10:19:19 AM · #31 |
This description was in a movie on Netflix called Kodachrome with Ed Harris as a world renowned photographer and so grabbed me I actually went to the part of the movie on my computer and played and freeze-framed it until I got it all. His was a powerful performance in and of itself and this exchange between him and a young photographer was just riveting. It felt like he was describing exactly how I feel about photography.
"We're all so frightened by time, the way it moves on and the way things disappear. That's why we're photographers. We're preservationists by nature. We take pictures to stop time, to commit moments to eternity. Human nature made tangible.".
The other aspect of it is that photography enables me to present imagery the way I see it in my mind's eye as well as the actual moment in time and space. I very much see things differently than most people because of how my mind works, and photography enables me to often display that through images.
Lastly, my mother was a photogrpher......most would have said that she made snapshots, and she did fill albums with family pics that were just that, but she had the eye and the "thing" that makes us what we are. I admired that from my earliest memories. She passed 43 years ago, yet her influence on me is as fresh and vibrant as ever. Her cameras sit beside me where I finish up whatever final touches I put to my image files.
So....WTF, John, did you have some near death experience, or are you just having fun examining the tortured souls of your DPC brethren?
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02/18/2019 10:25:54 AM · #32 |
Originally posted by roz:
also i have great difficulty going with what i love .. and not second guessing what i think other ppl would like to see ..
which i feel takes away from my 'creative' process .. as i lose myself in trying to please other ppl .. |
Originally posted by jagar:
That̢۪s very honest of you Ros and i have to say that it was exactly the same struggle that happened here for a long time. That need to please and be appreciated seemed to be in opposition with the natural flow of how things would be seen if there was no need for appreciation. |
Interesting....
When I first started, photography was a place I could go that was all and only about how I feel, what I see, and it became a place that was ultimately my own to represent in the way I saw fit.
Granted, that didn't mean that I didn't need, and gratefully welcome the amazing help I got here, but everything that I learned simkply made it easier to get what I want and need to from my imagery.
I've just started to teach photography, and I wrestled with the idea of starting a thread and talking about how I want to do it. I thought my ideas are kind of screwball, but maybe not so much since this thread.
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02/18/2019 11:06:03 AM · #33 |
One other thing I have noticed. My camera opens amazing doors for me. I have found myself sharing special moments in peoples' lives, I have been allowed to go p[laces, even asked to go places, that I would not have had I not had my camera.
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02/21/2019 02:11:49 AM · #34 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
One other thing I have noticed. My camera opens amazing doors for me. I have found myself sharing special moments in peoples' lives, I have been allowed to go p[laces, even asked to go places, that I would not have had I not had my camera. |
exactly .. !! .. opens doors .. :)
also .. ppl have expressed here .. so succinctly .. many feelings that I had trouble verbalizing ..
I have been 'creative' since I was a small child .. and photography is just an extension of that .. I would be lost without photography .. like losing a part of myself ..
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02/21/2019 05:48:52 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by roz:
then i think of the times i've gone out taking photographs for a challenge possibly ...
and the act of trying to get something that i think is good enough to enter .. i could take a lot of photos and spend quite a bit of time doing it ..
and then come away with nothing ..
but .. i have spent that time doing something i love ...
and the fact that i could delete most of those photos does not detract from the fact that i was in my happy place .. |
This is me.
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02/24/2019 12:21:21 PM · #36 |
Just read this quote from Kurt Vonnegut. It's a great answer to the question posed in this thread:
Practice Becoming.
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on.
Here's a link to the article it's from |
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