Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Harrison McClary wrote: > > And many people never develop the tunnel vision a photographer has to > have to select the small scene that represents the whole. This is, I > think, the hardest concept of photography. To be able to see a scene > that you find interesting and find in that scene something that can be > recorded on film, that communicates a feeling, mood, sense of the > place to the viewer, this is the hard thing of photography. Harrison, Absolutely. For me it is a drive to organize the universe, to make sense of it as it goes by. The small that represent the whole--perfect. Like hiku. Many people see "things" but few see stories summed up in a single moment with all the "back Story" (as they say in the screen writing trade) forming the foundation unseen. > > I think, photography is like so many things in life some are really > good at it naturally, some get good at it through hard work but are > never "artists" in the media, and some work all day and never get it > at all. Same can be said about fixing cars, shooting guns, or anything > else. Some people have a knack, others don't. I have worked many different jobs, including craft types and I remember years back when I had returned to photography and really busted ass learning how to do all the fancy lighting and so on and one day realizing there wasn't anything hardly I couldn't figure out how to get a photo of--and knew then I was a journeyman. I had gone from a artist/journalist to a craftsman. Now the direction is going back through the craftsmanship to the artist again and using the sharper disciplines I have learned to make the "art" more powerful. I suspect we all go through this, in cycles, forever. donal - -- Donal Philby San Diego www.donalphilby.com