A hard lesson to learn, and one that I forget all too often:
Some photographers (poor souls) never learn the essential trick of photography, which is that photographs are about light—not about their subject, not about your equipment, not about colors or “sharpness” or proving you’ve been to the Statue of Liberty or Disneyland or what Uncle Fred looked like. Well, all of that, too. But mainly light. Light is the essential ingredient of a photograph. It can ennoble virtually any subject. More than that, it creates subjects. It structures the things we see. A photograph that doesn’t depend on the light it was taken in has a lot of extra work to do to amount to anything.
From The Season of Light at the Online Photographer. Well worth a read.
This post on The Luminious Landscape is further proof that lanscape blur images are officially trendy. Even Alan Briot is shooting them!
(Not that I’m a critic. I really like a couple of Alan’s images, including the first one).
I look through this window just about every morning while waiting for an elevator. For some reason (perhaps aversion to phogographing odd things in public) I never dug my camera out of my briefcase to photograph it. Today, I finally dug out my camera and captured the image. I really like the “geometrical” feel of this image. On days when I’m pretentious enough to have a style, I will admit that I like slightly abstract images like this one with a strong geometrical component.
Things have been a little slow photographically lately. Not really winter (it was 72(!) in Denver today), but not quite spring yet — things have yet to green up, there are no baby animals to photograph, and the migrant birds are still a couple of months away. But there are some hopeful signs — this is a semi-abstract image of the first flower to bloom in my garden this year.
