Photography is starting to get a tad repetitive for me and I’m starting to try and evaluate why that should be. For three years now I’ve gone out into the world with my trusty Olympus cameras and taken a days worth of shots, picked the best, put them through the Photoshop mill and posted them to various sites. Somehow this isn’t enough. I’m now fairly comfortable with a camera but I want to make statements with my work rather than just show happenstance images collected on various walks. I’m at a point I think where I want to design a shot. You can probably tell from reading some of my posts in this thread that I’m not entirely comfortable with the direction of the world in which I live, there is a lot more going on around us that we simply miss in our day to day consumerist, survival, fast food lifestyle. I take the rapid transit train downtown sometimes and am amazed at how people are connected to electronic devices, cel phones, ipods, portable gaming devices, we don’t even seem to experience the transition from one place to another, it just becomes dead space in our lives that needs to be filled electronically by devices. I guess I’m sort of thinking out loud here but of late, I feel a need to take my observations and represent them photographically. Even my wildlife shots it occurs to me need revamping. I’ve got bucket loads of animals or birds doing nothing in particular, sure some of them are pretty but animals do stuff, they hunt, kill, survive, fight for territory and I just seem to get them posing like I paid them? Yeah…Definitely thinking out loud here but I hope you get my meaning. I have to do more damn it!![]()
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