The Art of Photography

Photography is part mechanical and part creativity.  The mechanical tool, the camera, comes with a manual; however, the creativity part has no manual but is totally subjective.  Creativity demands that you observe, isolate, study the light falling on your subject and choose a perspective that defines what you want your viewer to see.  I think Thoreau said it best "the question is not what you look at, but what you see."

Creativity is personal; I think an important part of creativity is a willingness to lose yourself in the process of seeing.  You immerse yourself in an idea of what you are observing- attempt to capture that thought on the camera's sensor.  You abstract what you are looking at, seeing lines, triangles and circles within the image.  These are the abstract devices that help define what you want the viewer to see.  So, creativity is a lot about you, a bit of design, toss in some light and the ability of the viewer to digest the image you present and you have art.

The images presented here are small things that caught my eye and the desire to capture these simple subjects – as I said, a little bit about design, some light, and me – mix gently and here is what I see.