The fact that I entered a photo today for a little online contest set me thinking about where I am on the Good Exposure Scale.
I realise too that I've been shooting alot lately. Maybe because I've never been good at Art or painting. So besides writing, which incidentally I also enjoy, photography gives me just that little outlet for creative expression. Something I believe is important because we are constantly absorbing so much bad
karma around us, sublimally or otherwise. And its a little cathartic to express one's thoughts, perceptions and appreciation for the less obvious, in pictures. Mental snapshots if you like.
I've never been one for stunning vistas. Or characterful Portraits. Eschewing these for a more different take on the mundane. Because, perhaps, I like finding
gorgeousity in the grotesque. There is Inner Beauty, but there is also beauty in the way things are perceived. And when a photograph fleshes out the hidden potential of an object or activity, as a representation of what the photographer sees, the image records this unique perception for eternity. An archive of thoughts as it were.
I want to be technically more proficient yes. And I am certainly not adverse to shooting landscapes or people in the standard kind of way. But more than having pictures be a mere collection of pixels for the record, I think I want photographs to represent what I am thinking of.
At that particular fleeting moment in time and space.
Labels: Musings, Photography