Can I take a photo without a person in it?
Obviously the answer is no. There’s a person lurking in this set of 3 that I took today. It’s funny what photographers are attracted to. I have such deep unresolved problems with personality and consciousness that I’d rather concentrate on humans, how they move around and into one another, their faces.
Landscapes are nice and all, and you can create tension in the frame by putting things up against each other, but it all seems a little academic, a little indulgent, a little anachronistic. Why not just go and paint? But then I look at these three pictures, and I like looking at them. It is highly aesthetic of me, but so what? And it was nice to get away from my normal work today and explore some different method. Stand back for a change. Curb the aggression.
As an aside, it is amazing how much difference seeing landscape large and detailed can be. The emotion, the drama comes from the detail.
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Posted 2 years ago
