Photo-doodling
There's a gift of living every day anew.
[[posterous-content:pid___0]]The camera is an extension of my presence. When the lens is pointed out into space with purpose, then; there is just that one moment. My friend Garth jokes with me about an Annie Griffith Bell quote I use so often.
"A photography is a moment of truth touched by light."
Some people use words like saccharin -- just to sweeten things up -- but the thought of an image as "truth" resonnates within me. I can't apologize for that. Truth, for me, is bound by my awareness of the world around me. I see truth in humanity as I see it in nature. Truth is being in touch with self so that we can respond in a deeper and more meaningful way.
There was a time when I took making images more seriously than need be. Everything my photographed had to connected to telling stories about some event or about some person. I did recognize the "art" what I did, but the content -- the decisive moment -- always seem to come first.
Time has changed the way I see the world. There's been a transformation of sorts. Things happen, people change. It's okay.
Coming to the office at sunrise I pick up my camera to record the rising light -- a beautiful sky. In that moment I realized that I had forgotten to change the settings off "self-timer" mode. The camera click and streaked of light appeared. For a few minutes I began to doodle with the camera -- that curious release of energy we do when we are sitting in a meeting that has gone on a few minutes too long.
Leaving the camera on self-timer with a long exposure, I moved around making images of a large Christmas tree in front of the journalism department.
The image is a "truth" - it is bound by intent and memory. The truth can be found in the discovery of self, the act of self-expression, and the realization that we have gifts to share with one another.
