The Thread
By Kevin Eckert-Smith
22 Nov 2008
There is a certain randomness in photography. A different day presents a different perspective. A new route to take. A bold muse, manifesting as a beautiful flower growing through a fence, light through a window, a sad face, a green car, an old brick wall, a political rally, an old broken fence post, a nice shiny new something or other.
There is a thread of sorts in the randomness. We choose what moves us or makes us happy or speaks to us and fires our passion. These connections are subtle sometimes, sometimes obvious.
This is Life, I guess.
Going through the day wondering what's around the next corner. What calamity next? What joy awaits? What vision manifested? No guarantees it will all fit nicely in an image, but still wondering anyway and joyfully anticipating this random orderliness!
Everything is form and light in photography. It needs something more to flourish, though. It needs heart and vision. Heart connects the randomness with the orderly. Vision presents them both to the world in a brand new way.
So it's working hard to try and see in a little bit different way this time. But also letting it just happen. Sometimes it manifests as a great photograph. Sometimes the feeling , the idea is buried in a mediocre shot. But at least it's there, so you get up and do it again and again, hopefully, finally, fully realizing the randomness and the joy, the perfect light and form!
Ideas don't die.
They are always waiting to be expanded.
That's the joy of photography! Realizing an idea! A vision! Discovering a certain light on water or texture on a spiderweb or coolness on asphalt. Making a statement, capturing the perfect red rose in early morning sunlight and mist. Perfect timing blending with a flexible vision. Imagination run amok, disorderly and wild, but all placed within that small camera viewfinder, snapped and snatched and stored away. A sort of order to chaos.
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Kevin Eckert-Smith gave props (25 Nov 2008):
Thanks for the kind words,David.
