Saturday, September 16, 2006

What Is In a Picture?

I stumbled across this award-winning, short video posted on YouTube®. It's called My Passion: Photography and I think it perfectly describes why so many of us pursue photography so earnestly and with such enthusiasm.

The female narrator begins with these words: "What is in a picture? A picture holds the essence of life captured within a moment of time."

Her voice-over ends the video, telling us: "To capture life is my life."

Wow! That certainly sums it up.

It doesn't matter whether you're shooting landscapes, sports, leisure, news, portraiture, fashion, or pretty girls in varying stages of dress and undress. It's all about capturing life-- Photographically-revealing our own, personal, points-of-view of it.

The image attached is my friend and model, Kori Rae, captured in my studio almost a year ago. Damn! Time flies.

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