Cheers to you too Kenneth and Happy Holiday. I totally agree with what you wrote. Just didn't think that deeply about what I've been photographing for many years. Good to take time to learn. It's one of the things I appreciate about Substack. And your approach
I can't say I truly understand what you 2 guys are talking about or referring to. I'd like to add I find the additional food for thought of what a picture "means" or conveys when discovered after taking it spurs (?stirs?) me to consider trying to use the approach (? technique?) as a way to consider whether a photo has been successful even if it conveys something I hadn't thought of when taking it. As I have loads taken on the street just trying to catch something potentially "interesting" (loaded word) on the fly it might improve my sense of having accomplished more (or less?) than what I intended initially. This a long winded way of appreciating your exchange.
That is the underlying substance of what we’re talking about. There have been many times after taking a photograph we see other details that changes our perspective – – therefore altering our perception of the meaning of the photograph. Similarly, captioning photographs changes the meaning of photographs as well. Adding the dynamic of lyrics and the photograph has different context.
That being said, since we don’t all view photograph with the exact same background or history, stands to reason we don’t interpret photographs initially in the same way either.
I love your taste in music and coupled with your photos works beautifully. I'm a part-time musician so I love the integration and have started weaving some music in as well. Thanks for the inspiration, Kenneth!
Somehow I was reminded of the song, and stayed with me for some time. Awesome to hear you've been inspired. I know you'll inspire others with what you come up with too.
I've often thought when looking at your 50+ years of photos that you and I are brothers from different mothers. This sentence proves it:
"So, I guess this article is supposed to dispense with one’s lofty imagination, replace it with an objective kind of imaginative mindset that has room to spare for fun and thoughtful stories."
Umbeknownst to you (I assume), I'm drafting a piece on this very subject: a call to photographers to stretch their right brains and "react" to their own photos with the fictional, imagined, poetic, lyrical. I'm trying it now, getting outside my own head long enough to reimagine what I captured. Aside from the dopamine hit it can give me, it stretches my vision, gives me a new perspective on an old capture.
I've noticed you getting philosophical at times with your sequences. We need to shake things up, don't we? Keep doing it, I say. You've got a million stories waiting to bec unveiled in those negative sleeves and right brain of yours.
Nahhhh, I'm not clairvoyant 😮💨 (not sure that's truly a good thing).
I believe that Star Trek (all shows) is a good precursor to stretching our fictional, imagined, poetic and lyrical aspects of our photography. I don't think we as photographers have singular thoughts when we press the shutter button. We're too complex a species to be so singularly focused. Our photographs never have just one thing going on in them, so our viewing of the scene is not likely to be as such.
Cheers to you too Kenneth and Happy Holiday. I totally agree with what you wrote. Just didn't think that deeply about what I've been photographing for many years. Good to take time to learn. It's one of the things I appreciate about Substack. And your approach
I can't say I truly understand what you 2 guys are talking about or referring to. I'd like to add I find the additional food for thought of what a picture "means" or conveys when discovered after taking it spurs (?stirs?) me to consider trying to use the approach (? technique?) as a way to consider whether a photo has been successful even if it conveys something I hadn't thought of when taking it. As I have loads taken on the street just trying to catch something potentially "interesting" (loaded word) on the fly it might improve my sense of having accomplished more (or less?) than what I intended initially. This a long winded way of appreciating your exchange.
Hi Marian,
That is the underlying substance of what we’re talking about. There have been many times after taking a photograph we see other details that changes our perspective – – therefore altering our perception of the meaning of the photograph. Similarly, captioning photographs changes the meaning of photographs as well. Adding the dynamic of lyrics and the photograph has different context.
That being said, since we don’t all view photograph with the exact same background or history, stands to reason we don’t interpret photographs initially in the same way either.
The human condition in all its machinations.
Cheers!
I love your taste in music and coupled with your photos works beautifully. I'm a part-time musician so I love the integration and have started weaving some music in as well. Thanks for the inspiration, Kenneth!
Hi Juliette,
Somehow I was reminded of the song, and stayed with me for some time. Awesome to hear you've been inspired. I know you'll inspire others with what you come up with too.
Cheers!
I've often thought when looking at your 50+ years of photos that you and I are brothers from different mothers. This sentence proves it:
"So, I guess this article is supposed to dispense with one’s lofty imagination, replace it with an objective kind of imaginative mindset that has room to spare for fun and thoughtful stories."
Umbeknownst to you (I assume), I'm drafting a piece on this very subject: a call to photographers to stretch their right brains and "react" to their own photos with the fictional, imagined, poetic, lyrical. I'm trying it now, getting outside my own head long enough to reimagine what I captured. Aside from the dopamine hit it can give me, it stretches my vision, gives me a new perspective on an old capture.
I've noticed you getting philosophical at times with your sequences. We need to shake things up, don't we? Keep doing it, I say. You've got a million stories waiting to bec unveiled in those negative sleeves and right brain of yours.
Hi Mark,
Nahhhh, I'm not clairvoyant 😮💨 (not sure that's truly a good thing).
I believe that Star Trek (all shows) is a good precursor to stretching our fictional, imagined, poetic and lyrical aspects of our photography. I don't think we as photographers have singular thoughts when we press the shutter button. We're too complex a species to be so singularly focused. Our photographs never have just one thing going on in them, so our viewing of the scene is not likely to be as such.
Anyways, I digress.
Cheers to my brother from another mother!