I feel your pain Darren. Been there.
At times like that I try to enjoy the moment even if I can't capture it and
share with others. And it gives me ideas about potential future captures.
Its also because of times like that that I force myself to do a
workshop/field trip with others to get up early and experience what the
morning light can do to a scene.
It also was the reason I recently purchased an advanced P+S camera to carry
around with me.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Addy" <[email protected]>
Subject: You can't always get what you want...
Creative photo opportunities have been few and far between for me
recently. Winters in Nebraska aren't exactly inspiring (most of the
time). But it is amazing how many times you see great images when you
are least able to capture them (Murphy's Law of Photography?)
Got up this morning, predawn, to walk the dog before leaving for work
and there was a gorgeous and striking conjunction of the crescent moon
and venus in the southeast. Then leaving for work (1 degree F) I
decided to take the interstate which parallels the flat Platte River
basin and I was struck by the gorgeous fog coming off of the frozen
ponds, lakes, and river & creek channels. Trees and bushes were
frosted white by their overnight exposure to the freezing fog. The
scene got even more beautiful as the sun crept over the horizon and
bathed everything in that warm morning light. Turning north off the
interstate to take the final leg to work I saw, near the road, a
cluster of geese sitting on the ice enshrouded in more fog. Then
looking west, I saw horses bathed in the same warm light, breath comng
out of their nostrils.
I was cursing the fact that I had to bypass each of these photo
opportunities due to the call of a timeclock, but if I was honest with
myself I probably would not have even witnessed any of these scenes if
I hadn't been on my way to work. My lazy butt would probably have
still been under the warm covers while all of these excellent (and
frozen) photo opportunities passed in my blissful, slumbering
ignorance.
Still, I'm glad to have "captured" them with the eye of a
photographer. It is more than possible that my visualization of the
images is better than my actual execution in capturing them
photographically would have been. Everything is perfect in the
theoretical. But while visual exercises are nice, it is in the actual
photographic capture that we find our greatest pleasure and it gives
us the opportunity to relive those moments of transient beauty each
time we look at them.
I probably should have been another 15 minutes late to work and
captured at least ONE of them.
Darren Addy
Kearney, Nebraska
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Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs
look like photographs.
~ Alfred Stieglitz
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