Comments on: Photo archetype

By: Gordon McGregor

Gordon McGregor — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:03:05 +0000

I actually think it is worth some careful consideration. If you explore your motivations, you might find a way to connect more deeply with the pictures and maybe improve the end result.

We all have these themes we return to, consciously or not. I think awareness can only improve the results. An old white beardy dude once said “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:24:45 +0000

@All: I’m glad to know that I’m not alone!

By: Anita Jesse

Anita Jesse — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:47:42 +0000

I can’t tell you how many pictures I have taken of sunsets, paths, lone trees, and then all the ones of horses. Sometimes I think that I take the same five or ten photographs over and over again.

By: On the boardwalk « TheQPB: Frames of Reference

On the boardwalk « TheQPB: Frames of Reference — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:08:16 +0000

[...] orderliness.Â Its also a path, which I tend to photograph over and over and over.Â Paul Lester (http://www.paullesterphoto.com/wordpress/?p=2397) recently wrote about this in one of his posts.Â I have more photos of trails and paths than I can [...]

By: QPB (Mary Ann)

QPB (Mary Ann) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:51:44 +0000

Absolutely, and I always wonder why I am drawn to some of the same types of images, over and over and over. Really, I don’t know, nor does it matter. Something compels me, I’m glad I at least have a camera to create the scenes. Left with pen and paper to draw, I would be in big trouble, lol.

By: Chris Klug

Chris Klug — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:51:20 +0000

Paul, I do the same thing. Mine is roads/paths/walkways. I can’t stop.

Lovely image.

By: Ove

Ove — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:14:21 +0000

I don’t know if this is the same, but after many years of photographing finding you never really evolved, that you after 20 years still make the same compositions and prefers the b+w to be in the same way as you have always liked it â€“ that makes me wonder if it is I who am the archetype, not the subject. To your question, I do have lots of subjects like yours, with the pier, which I returns to often. In fact, I know a pier nearby me, which I have made hundreds of shots of over the years.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:21:10 +0000

I do! It just may be that I try to capture the same scene at different times, no 2 sunrises/sunsets are the same, or it could be I just like that place so much, I can say I was here…

Terrific negative space!