Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.
Photography helps people to see.
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.
Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.