The Joy of Seeing
I’ve always been addicted to the act of raising the camera to my eye, depressing the shutter release button and making an image. But it’s only been through my awareness and use of light that I’ve been able to fully enjoy the process of seeing, making the photograph, and producing that final print.
Though the opinions of others are still important, they don’t hold as much sway over me as they once did—though, admittedly, I still have my moments. Now, I’m more often urged on by my own pressing desire to make a photograph that, when I hold the printed version in my hands, says something unique about how I saw the world.
It’s not an easy thing to do, and that’s evident in the hundreds of thousands of exposed frames that exist in ...
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