What is better than having an unique perspective? Capturing it through a lense! My philosophy on photography and traveling through life is as follows:
Most of us go through life, moving from place to place, shifting through space, in order to complete some task, reach some goal, or simply pass the time. But what remains in our minds eye, what we are conscious of, what we remember, is usually only a sensation of where we have been or what we have seen. Sometimes we remember the journey too, but again, only as a blur.
Snapping a picture is about recording something we are looking at. Photography is when we capture something special that we see. After you compose your first photograph, having looked and looked at the same thing, from different angles and in different light, closer or farther, higher or lower, something wonderful happens to how you see the world.
You no longer walk or drive from place to place daydreaming along the way. Now every person or thing along your path, near and far, become objects of scrutiny, your mind calculating the best angle and the best light, the just right perspective, to capture something unique or to tell a story. You are bombarded with macro and micro images, and you find yourself looking at shiny surfaces for reflections, or shadows, or the patterns of the bricks in the road, or the roof top facades of houses along the streets. Shiny leaves blown against a fence after a storm fascinate you, and the backs of statues heads are just as interesting to you as their faces.
Dwight Pinkley joined Pixels.com Licensing on September 3rd, 2014.
