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From: "Gary Edwards" <garyetx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:06:02 -0500
No, Wayne, you're right.  It is all about light (and composition and drama
and subtlety and tension and. . .)   Truth is, it depends.  But a strong
sense of light, used well to tell the story, is a great start.

Gary

Gary Edwards
www.peopleplacesflight.com
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Subject: [OM] (OT?) art and photography


I was in Provincetown Massachusetts over the weekend. There are quite a
few art galleries there but not too much in the way of photography
compared to paintings. I have recently returned to watercolor painting
myself, so I was interested in what people were doing these days. I
have found that seeing through watercolor painting has affected how I
see photographically as well as how seeing photographically affects my
watercolor painting. (I'm very much a beginner with painting.)

While in Ptown, I did not see very much in the way of art that caught
my eye. Then I saw one painting, which turned out to be by a friend's
grandfather done in the early 1900's. Looking at this painting, it
dawned on me what I was not seeing in almost all of the other
paintings. Something that I strive after in photography - that of
capturing light. This painting showed light hitting a tree just right,
giving it that special glow, and you knew the painting was a
celebration of light even though it was just a tree and a house. To me,
almost all the other paintings I saw in Ptown were just paint on a
canvas, and not about light. I found that if the painting, no matter
the subject, did not have a some kind of relationship to light, it did
not interest me much. Am I now biased as a photographer? such that I
can't see the art in art? I always thought, OK, I can't really draw,
especially people, I must not be artistic, so I'll just do photography
instead, and maybe someday I'll at least learn how to see.

Wayne


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