More time
And now
The memory of my awakening
has even left me
and I flounder, beating my
body against
A white page, with a pen,
In a desperate attempt to
Find a place where my memory
returns
I owned my first camera at 12 or 13, it was a birthday present from my mother and it was a Polaroid. At that time I had no money of my own and film was so expensive I wasn’t able to use it very much. There are no photographs left that I shot with that camera and can’t really remember what I was photographing as I carried it around all day. Fast forward to today and I think about all the 10-12 years olds who have digital cameras and no film costs of any kind. They just need access to a computer and a little time. I wonder what photography will look like in a few years as those who fall in love with photography decide to enter the profession, then get older and buy better and better cameras.
The average $200 digital camera is much better than the average $200 film camera from 40 years ago. The technology has advanced so far it’s left many old film photographers behind. We are going to see photographers and digital artists emerge and make interesting images that no one expected.
This photograph was made last March at Kew Gardens in Richmond, just outside of London on a nice spring day. These girls were feeding this goose and were having a great time photographing. I would like to see their photographs as they were having such a good time. The photographer part of me says, “The goose is back lit and the background is going to be enough in focus to be ugly. To get the bird in focus she’s got to be shooting with a wide to medium lens and I’m really not sure what she is shooting right now. My photograph doesn’t have any of these answers because I grabbed this shot without looking through the viewfinder, I didn’t realize I’d find all these questions.
These pages are an attempt to explain and explore photographs with words to see if I can stitch them together with the right words.