Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.
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.
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
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