Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

Making the Shot

If, as many photographers before me have suggested, we make a photograph rather than take a photograph, then the process is in our hands to make it what we will. If we choose to make the photograph quickly and move on, then that’s as much a choice and a process as it is when we take our time, wait it out, and move our (or our subject’s) position. The great freedom that has come after being a photographer for so long is that I’ve become more patient and more intentional about making photographs. I am no longer ashamed of it or self-conscious about it. I am a photographer, and I am proud of the work I do and the way in which I do it. I’m passionate about it, and that passion pushes me to go beyond the shoot-and-run or the one-minute ...