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Subject: [OM] Re: composition and how it changes perceived meaning of a photo
From: "Michael R. Collins" <michael789@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:50:02 -0400
>  > The goal of travel photography is different.  As a
>  > viewer of photographs I think you have to take into account the place
>>  you find the pictures. A traveling friend is going to show you
>>  pictures of things that made him enthusiastic about his trip. You
>>  would expect something else from a journalist documenting a stated
>  > aspect of a country or event.
>
>[snip]
>I think with travel photography you still have some responsibility to
>give people an accurate idea of what the country is like.
>[snip]
>There's a balance that you have to strike between beautiful images 
>and accurate images.

I've been thinking about this too, as I've just come back from two 
weeks in south-west France (the Pays Basque), travelling with friends 
and by myself. I shot primarily landscapes, although I don't normally 
do that, because it was the physical beauty and characteristics of 
the geography that most impressed me this first time. If I go back 
again, I think I'd be a little less awed by the physical 
surroundings, they'd be fairly familiar, and I'd spend rather more 
time on capturing people and daily life. But neither approach is 
fully "balanced".

Now, by "landscape" I mean mostly documentary "I was there" shots, 
not necessarily artistic. I'll try in the next month or two to get 
some of the negs scanned and up on my Web site, so y'all can tell me 
whether they're a step above "postcard shots" or not :-) . 
Regardless, they'll evoke for me the wonderful memories of 
discovering this part of the world, which is really why I shot them.

Michael

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Michael R. Collins  ...  Michael.Collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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