Paris/London 2012
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A Sense of Light and Time
Today's photos have yet to be processed, film was used almost exclusively.
Dear William Henry
Fox Talbot,
I’m having a lot of
difficulty working with digital images. Before this course, I thought that any
perceived difficulty was just my preferences. Maybe it was just a lack of
familiarity with the equipment, or general skill. Now, I know that my
difficulties go beyond simple dislike. Reviewing all the pictures from these
days I feel so disconnected. My digital camera is a fully automatic weapon, and
I don my disconcerting eye. While I know that I thought about the composition
of nearly every photograph, so much of it I think of as uninteresting now. Am I
just too hard on myself? Is it that too often I find myself comparing my work
against others instead of my own?
The hours that I
spent at Lacock Abby and the surrounding Village was so wonderful, carrying my
Nikon FM2 at the ready. I had gone through my whole reserve of 100 and 400 iso
film. When I did so the feeling I felt was strikingly similar to what one feels
when one turns the last page of a really good book. It’s that feeling that the
world has changed somehow, but no one seems to recognize it. I could have
stayed there forever, and I felt disappointed that we couldn’t have spent more
time there. The tour was great, but I couldn’t really pay attention and take
photographs at the same time. We were always moving forward, without a chance
to take it in, and no patience to take any steps backward.
That’s digital
photography to me. The emphasis is on instantaneousness, immediate
gratification, and convenience. The result is an insane pressure to have a
quick draw and shoot fast. This isn’t a good environment to train an artist.
Sure being swift and agile is an asset, but I think that a good eye and
technical proficiency should be developed first. Sometimes time can mean the
difference between a mediocre photograph and one that is wonderfully
fantastical.
I need and crave that
physical connection. I’m sure that you, William Henry Fox Talbot, can
understand where I’m coming from. While you didn’t have the pleasure of
experiencing digital photography in your lifetime, to accomplish what you did
must have taken passion. Considering that it much have taken many hours upon
hours of work, as well as, lots of trial and error to produce a single image.
Was your motivation simply that? To produce a single image or was it a grandiose
vision to change the world?
So, me and photography? It’s a doorway into the parts of
myself that scream “I’m an artist.” It’s a window
into possibility. It wasn’t until I connected with my camera that prospect
opened up in my life. Before photography I was trapped in a trajectory that had
nothing to do with my life’s quest. Now…
Best wishes,
Zoey Wyn (Joyful Life)
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