Flatland Photography---A Sampler
I've been going through some of the hundreds of photographs my late husband took. I've written (8-7) at some length about the importance of our photography hobby during our marriage, and it's actually taken me four years to really get myself to sit down and look through them all again.
We were absolute amateurs. We had crap equipment---nondigital though---and almost all of the photographs were taken between 1996 and 1999. Neither of us knew what we were doing in the sense in which someone who is a professional---or an artist----would know. We just pointed our cameras in the direction of the particular color or light we wanted to hang on to and hoped for the best. Our state of mind was acquisitive---we took pictures in the hope of hanging on to an impression.
I've said that taking pictures of whatever presented itself to my attention helped me become much more intensely aware of my world. Putting a frame around things literally helped me get it into perspective during a period when I desperately needed it.
Photographs such as those displayed at Ed Buziak's Artwork + Photography demonstrate that a photographer can also be an artist. Looking at truly beautiful photographs, and reading the artist's commentary, is inspiring and illuminating, but it makes you more aware than ever of the medium's potential and of your own limitations. I would not wish anyone to think that I don't know the difference!
My photographs are not art, they are snapshots---old snapshots that have been scanned into a computer, and crudely edited by a tyro. Nevertheless, I think some of them get across a sense of the light on the day and at the time when they were taken. The point of them for us was to take them---the results were always out of our hands (though the light here sometimes produces unexpectedly dramatic results even for an amateur if the amateur is persistent). Anyway, here they are. I put them together because Don would have enjoyed sharing them.
To see the Flatlands photography gallery, click here.
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Image drawn by Mr Tenniel; painted by Damozel.
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