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Wandering through the Huntington Library
Photography is my creative outlet, but I sometimes get caught up with the how instead of the why. I get fixated on the technical aspects of photography like technique and gear and forget about the creative aspects like vision and style. Maybe it's because I'm a geek at heart, but I find that the fleeting joy of owning a new piece of technology can occasionally overshadow the satisfaction of creating an interesting photograph. Whenever this happens, I find that it helps to wander through a new place (or anyplace I haven't been for awhile) with my camera. As I wander, my curious nature surfaces and I start photographing everything that catches my eye. The point of wandering is not so much about the photographs, but the act of making them. Letting my curiosity take over reminds me how much I enjoy seeing the world through a lens and clicking the shutter just to see the result. Here are some of the results of that curiosity from our recent trip to the Huntington Library.
Photography is
Photography is many things to many people. For me, photography is my way of preserving and sharing moments. It allows me to capture all the little details in the world around me and to present them in my own way. I've heard many times that everything around us has already been photographed ad nauseam. While this may be true, this doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to photograph those same things in a way that best represents our own way of seeing the world.
I was reminded of exactly what photograph is for me recently while going through my pictures for the DILO Community on Google+. For the most part, my camera is now only by my side during trips. But being a part of this new community and having a photo project to work on really brought back the feelings I had when I first looked through a viewfinder. Here are the results of this great exercise in photography.
