Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Where is a good spot? I always find myself riding my bike through the > slums because there are always people out who don't mind having there > picture taken but everyone takes pictures of the slums. Where can I a 17 > year old get pictures of the rich. I snuck onto a golf course once but > those people aren't very receptive to photos and there boring shots any > ways. The country club won't let me anywhere near. One of my heroes, Garry Winogrand, once said that "anything and everything is photographable." I wondered about this for a long time until I woke up to the fact that (for me) photography is always about seeing itself (which is the same thing as light). The "subject" is nearly incidental. What a creative (and playful) challenge it is to begin with where you are right now. Explore this common, known (and so taken for granted) world through the lens of your camera (a 50 will do!): what is it when it is seen afresh? There is beauty everywhere, because beauty is not contained in the presumed external objects (people, places, plants and the like) that fill our world: it is in the way we _see_. Our cameras are just toys that help us play in the creative field of awareness. Dan