I was reading an interesting article that had to do with the soul of an artist. It kind of started with the author wondering why a tycoon, such as Oprah, continued to build empires. He had a friend who answered something to the effect that, if you are a musician, after you write one piece of music, do you stop? That’s profound.
With photography, many of us have thousands and thousands upon thousands of images, yet, we continue to create. For some, they hope to have fame, fortune, glory, respect, etc. For others, like myself, I do it to capture a moment or call attention to something that I thought was important, or perhaps to show things a different way. I think that showing something in a new light, or perhaps showing that which we walk by on a daily basis without noticing, is important.
Perhaps a number of my images could be classified as cliche’, but that’s not the issue. My ‘tag line’ on my website is, “Life. Stop and take a look!”. Far to often, we are in a different time than our physical selves. We think about what we need to do tomorrow; what we didn’t do yesterday; what might happen in the future and we sail right on through life and never, ever see it pass. We don’t enjoy the journey, which is all we really have.
So, the reason I photograph, I guess, is to cause myself to slow down, look, learn, enjoy, and love my life, such as it is.
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I think it would be great if we all gave some deep and serious thoughts as to why we photograph. It would serve to help us grow and develop our craft.