At 09:26 4/4/02, Wayne Schumaker wrote (in part):
Sometimes you see something before your rational mind has time to
figure it out. I had no idea at the time that I would like this photo
as much as I do now. Instincts plus practice.
I like it!
There are times when I turn, look, and a photograph visualizes instantly
(e.g., TOPE 7; Human Society). Likewise, it's only afterward I am able to
fully comprehend all the elements that converged for it; at the time I
simply "saw" it.
I agree with the practice! It's not so much the quantity of film burned as
it is how it's done. It starts with working consciously at developing a
visualization for a photograph before making it. After a while, more and
more of them begin to visualize on their own. One "sees" and all that
registers is "it looks right." WARNING: If you do this, you will "cross
the Rubicon" and *never* see the world around you the way you did before.
At other times it's very difficult to define what to portray and how to go
about it (e.g., TOPE . Then there are the occasions in which a
visualization for a photograph at a familiar location occurs while sitting
in my study at home or in my office at work and I must wait until
conditions are right for making it (e.g., TOPE 9). One photograph (not
scanned or posted yet) was visualized two years before finally having the
opportunity to make it during the desired time of year, weather conditions
and lighting (time of day). It will be part of the September exhibit.
PS: I hope nobody was terribly offended by my dropping that contest.
Not me.
-- John
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