This isn't the Luminous Landscape, or even a wannabe clone. They are enough great landscape photographers out there, vying for the definitive take on desert flowers and canyons. I'm trying to do something else. What it is I don't exactly know. In the first rush of creativity, it's too obscure — Camera obscura.
I like shooting people, not exclusively, but preponderantly. I don't have to tromp through the bush in remote places like Laos and The Mosquito Coast, searching for the perfect sunset, but I do have to use equipment that sets up quickly.
Not that I don't like nature, I do. Sunsets are everywhere, and they're always a challenge. But how to be original is not the issue, it's how to get one decent image out of 50. Originality is merely the elusive quality the siren muses tempt us with?
Perhaps, it's the illusion of capturing an image that's never been photographed before. Capturing the perfect image with an instrument in the hands of someone who's less than perfect, someone who doesn't know what all the dials and buttons are for and can't set the ones he does know fast enough. Perfection, by way of imperfection. That's the real challenge of photography.
You be the judge...
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