Mind Shots

Are photographers trying to capture reality with a camera, or are they trying to depict their own reality?  A lot of photographers have been taught to create beautiful images.  However, if the photographer is striving to use the medium as an art form, then maybe the objective should be to create an emotional response from the viewer.

Let me start this post off with the statement...It is within the mind where an image is developed, not the camera.  The camera is only a tool in the process.  I believe that a lot of the images you produce are the result of ideas that are processed from a collection of scraps of things, fragments of words or thoughts that have been neatly filed away in a special compartment in your mind and at some point something triggers their release.   I like to refer to this as snapshots of ideas or “Mind Shots.”

The images I am presenting here are meant to be fragments of thoughts for the viewer to unravel ...each viewer of course will see or feel something different about the image.  It is an exchange of ideas between the photographer and the viewer.   Some were created directly in camera, while other are a collection of other images brought together to form the final thought that I had.  What follows is my imagination free on a digital canvas.  The images can be as simple as a study in light while others border on the surreal.

All images photographed using a Sony A7II camera…email contact nymacc@gmail.com