Tom Robbins
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Tom, I'm impressed by the importance of this subject you have chosen for yourself. This makes a great challenge for us to follow! So I repurposed your post and copied it here for this dedicated new thread. The original thread is found here, ADK.
My goal, when taking a photograph, has changed through the years. This is probably typical for anyone seriously pursuing an artistic endeavor. In my case, however, it has evolved to this: to provide the viewer with a sense of richness of commonly overlooked, "mundane" outdoor subjects. Most folks are destination oriented, and as a result, don't even notice the most remarkable things during the journey.
Small things tend to be overlooked, so the near-macro realm predominates much of the time. There are overlooked landscapes as well - rain falling on the mud puddles of a rural gravel road, for example. There is absolutely no reason to care about such scenes given today's priority-driven concerns, yet the appreciation of them are the very things that make getting out of bed in the morning worthwhile. Or so it seems to me.
Maple Leaf and Muddy Water
My goal, when taking a photograph, has changed through the years. This is probably typical for anyone seriously pursuing an artistic endeavor. In my case, however, it has evolved to this: to provide the viewer with a sense of richness of commonly overlooked, "mundane" outdoor subjects. Most folks are destination oriented, and as a result, don't even notice the most remarkable things during the journey.
Small things tend to be overlooked, so the near-macro realm predominates much of the time. There are overlooked landscapes as well - rain falling on the mud puddles of a rural gravel road, for example. There is absolutely no reason to care about such scenes given today's priority-driven concerns, yet the appreciation of them are the very things that make getting out of bed in the morning worthwhile. Or so it seems to me.
Maple Leaf and Muddy Water
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