Quite lovely. Let's paint! How do you deal with that feeling that comes some times after taking such a picture that you are "stealing" a work of art already in existence? I get that way sometimes and can't go out and take pictures or pass them by because I feel like I'll living off of a sensibility, an ability to see in the abstract ...something "beautiful". I know, I know "I" am creating something by just taking the picture, but somehow my inner-self thinks it needs something more. A more "complex" vision perhaps. A picture with "more"in it. I has been interesting to see your sensibility Jonathan. You don't see as I see, even though we recognize the same things!
Sometimes I do feel like I'm stealing or taking advantage of someone else's work. I still try to shoot even if it is stealing. I figure if my eye is attracted and I'm moved to take a picture that I should honor that impetus and release the shutter. I think the impetus trumps the theft even if the final outcome is crap this time around. I do want more though than a copy of the original either more complexity or revelation or the exposure of mystery in the mundane. I want to uncover what attracted my eye (mind, spirit) originally. I've also found that if I ignore the initial movement, momentary inspiration, it is a little bit harder to see the next time. That inertia is hard to overcome.
Of course I don't think of any of this when the camera is hanging from my wrist.
SE Division, Portland Oregon
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Quite lovely. Let's paint!
How do you deal with that feeling that comes some times after taking such a picture that you are "stealing" a work of art already in existence? I get that way sometimes and can't go out and take pictures or pass them by because I feel like I'll living off of a sensibility, an ability to see in the abstract ...something "beautiful". I know, I know "I" am creating something by just taking the picture, but somehow my inner-self thinks it needs something more.
A more "complex" vision perhaps. A picture with "more"in it.
I has been interesting to see your sensibility Jonathan. You don't see as I see, even though we recognize the same things!
Sometimes I do feel like I'm stealing or taking advantage of someone else's work. I still try to shoot even if it is stealing. I figure if my eye is attracted and I'm moved to take a picture that I should honor that impetus and release the shutter. I think the impetus trumps the theft even if the final outcome is crap this time around. I do want more though than a copy of the original either more complexity or revelation or the exposure of mystery in the mundane. I want to uncover what attracted my eye (mind, spirit) originally. I've also found that if I ignore the initial movement, momentary inspiration, it is a little bit harder to see the next time. That inertia is hard to overcome.
Of course I don't think of any of this when the camera is hanging from my wrist.
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