A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.
To photograph is to confer importance.
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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.
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.
Photography must be integrated with the story.
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