What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.
The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.
What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.
To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.