Time, Place, and the Way it all Moves Together
One of the things I like most about photography is the essence of the moment and how, more than any other medium, photography is able to capture it. It’s a hard lesson to learn, but when you see something that you think might make for a great image, then, at that moment, you have to take it. I’m pretty sure there are quite a few photographers who’ve made the mistake of thinking that they could come back later and get the shot, only to discover a car parked in the wrong spot, or a tree has been cut down, or the light isn’t right, or any other number of changes in scene that makes what they saw a memory as opposed to a photograph they can share.
I bring this up only as an observation about place. And how it can change despite a permanence to the things that make up a place. Sun, light, people, trash, snow. An unknown amount of variables determine the feel of a place. I could go back and stand in this same spot ten times, a hundred times and get as many shots.
There’s a scene from a great movie entitled “Smoke” with Harvey Keitel that pretty much sums up what I’m trying to say. Rather than try to explain the scene, I’ll just suggest watching the movie. And in the meantime I’ll offer this and all the ways it could have been different.
February 9th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Tena koe ehoa
I tend to think differently from you Garrison in that from one moment of shutter release to another moment of shutter release, it is the indelible connection at the moment of the shutter release and not the place that transcends the reality into the frame of an image.
The place or places exist in a photograph because of the indelible visual connection to the moment and it is in that awareness that we become attached to locations for various subconscious reasons.
After all there are some things that all photographs just can not impress and these things are the completeness of the photographic moment (the indelible connection) that only the photographer can relate too. In my opinion it is that that draws us to a scene, to an image construct, to a photograph design, to a concept of visual creation.
February 12th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
This is beautiful, Garrison. The light and color are wonderful.
February 14th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
magical glow like the sun setting on the sea or the way a precious thought settles in my head
February 19th, 2008 at 1:33 am
meditative
February 24th, 2008 at 11:50 am
I love this Garrison! The lines, the light, the moment- it all works.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
This shot has a lovely warmth to it. Nice job!