I’ve always been a sucker for pictures with some sort of narrative, that is I like the sense of mystery and intrigue, but I also like the narrative that comes with it. I believe the first step to using pictures to communicate something is that you must really believe it. I believe that there is such a thing as being a good photographer, and that the best photographers have that level of self-awareness.
The thing is that while a lot of great photographers have the “goodness” necessary to get the job done, they don’t have the self-awareness to know that what they’re imaging is not real. This is why the best photographers are good at the “goodness” of their images, but bad at the “truth” of their images… that is, they do not know that their images are not real.
The same goes for fine art photography. You can say you know youre good at it, or you can do the work and have the self-awareness to know that youre good at it. But you cant say that you know youre good at it. I think that the best photographers have both.
I get asked “what is photography?” all the time, and the response is always “it’s the art of seeing”. The problem is that this is not true. Photography is not about seeing, it’s about capturing. In fact, it’s the opposite of that. Photography is about making the viewer feel something, often a sense of beauty. However, the viewer is not the one who is feeling it. The photographer is.
Photography is a medium that can capture a moment, capture a moment from many different angles, and capture it so perfectly that they can make the viewer feel he has never seen a moment the same way before. If you want to see something beautiful, it isn’t the fact that you have to stand in front of that object and stare at it for a few minutes that makes it beautiful. It’s how well a photographer captures it and that’s what makes the moment so beautiful.
By standing before a beautiful object and not taking a photo, you are missing out on the beauty of it because the world is not the same as the photo. The world is not the same as the object, and the photographer is not the same as the object. A photo is an image that is not the same as the photographer, but you are still seeing the photo.
It’s not just our love of beautiful photography that’s made me love photography. It’s not just because we appreciate the art form, its because our love for it seems to make us more aware. Our awareness of the art form makes us more likely to appreciate it.
I think the reason most people see the world differently than the object is because we’re so used to thinking of art as something that is fixed and unchanging. We’re so used to taking photos of the same thing over and over and then hoping to get the same sort of result. Like a person who doesn’t eat certain foods, but still hopes to get the same sort of result from a photo.
For the same reasons, we see the same sort of art all the time – the same sort of art that we love. I think this is because we have become so used to seeing things that we are more likely to be aware of and appreciate them.
The problem is when what we see is not the same as what we love. It’s just the same sort of art all the time. It’s not that we can’t like art, we just can’t. We can like art, but its not so easy to like art. We can like art that is a little more polished and has a stronger emotional connection to us, but that’s not it.