[Leica] Re: Non-Photography Day

[pj at GoodPhotos.com (Michael Eric Berube)]

Tina Manley wrote:
> How many of you are going to observe Non-photography Day by putting 
> down your cameras?
>
> http://www.nonphotographyday.com/info.html
>
> Not me!
>   
Me either Tina.
The page's author writes of him fellow travelers on a trip to Burma:
> They were more concerned with gaining the pattern the camera made. I 
> felt sad for them, as it seemed they were missing out on so much 
> reality through their obsession, an act of possession- of wanting to 
> own the appearance of the place, as if this was all it had to give and 
> photographs were their way of taking it.
When not being paid to make photographs that other people want me to
make, I  make a photograph because I want to share that small slice of
time/space that I'm experiencing that has moved me in some way. I'm not
'missing out' on this reality or trying to possess it, but rather in
trying to pass it on via the visual communication I'm totally immersing
myself into it. If I grok that junction of time/space well enough to
make a great photograph others may be moved to some degree with a
similar emotion that I had in that moment of exposure. We all relate to
the Universe from our own unique position. Photography is the ultimate
act of sharing (rather than possession) in that it lets us to allow
others to see the Universe through our eyes.
(ok...enough philosophy...back to photoshop!)

-- 
Carpe lumen,
Michael Eric Berube
AnotherMaine.com
GoodPhotos.com