Thoughts

IMAGES

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Each period of time needs to be kept as part of our future’s history and images are a precise way to do this.

Time is a collaborative partner to an image.

Images are the language of visualising time and understanding how it is represented.

The timing and duration of a camera’s exposure is the determining aspect of all photographic images.

Every image has a psychological affect on its viewer.

An image represents how things appeared, from a particular point of view at a particular time and place.

Images are ‘timeslices’ of a landscape cake.

An image is the time taken for the moment of observation.

We don’t experience time in split seconds but as an experience of the fluidity of time, so an image really shows us things as we do not see them.

An image is a decisive moment in time.

An image is a scene from the film of life.

Images are the glimpses that we catch of ourselves passing through time.

Images show us the fragmentary everyday nature of our identity.

Images are scenes that the photographer captured as he/she visited an instant of their lives.

Images make you wonder what the ‘full scene’ might have been or was to become.

Images seduce you into viewing them as an insight into a bigger scene which is why we engage with them.

Landscape images play off a particular kind of sentiment that we have for our surroundings.

Looking at images often makes us feel like voyeurs.

Images are like the view through a rear-view mirror, showing us somewhere we have been yet we have now moved on.

An image should stimulate an emotional response.

An expressive image should encourage the viewer to read more into it than the immediate impression might provide.

There are so many images now available that often we become desensitised to them and frequently ignore their depth of meaning.

An image is a collaboration of skill, patience and luck.

Each image should have a unique expressiveness.

A viewer should contemplate an image not just look at it.

A good image should be full of photographic ‘symbols’ such as lines, form, positioning, relationships between objects, hue, contrast and sharpness.

Although an image may be worth a thousand words, it often needs a few succinct ones to convey what the photographer was aiming to show.

An image should be imaginatively read, not just glanced at.

Individual viewers can often get different feelings from an image and even interpret it differently.

A good image should take a split second to take but hours or even days to prepare.

A good image is like a good meal, all the component parts working to create a good end product.
We can all conjure up images with out a camera. Just close your eyes and imagine the view from your lounge window.

Although an image is based on time, it often provokes a feeling of ‘timelessness’.

Capturing a photograph is easy; making an image requires skill, judgement and much experience.

It doesn't have to be pretty to be true, but if it's true, it's beautiful.