Edward Hall said that we learn while we see, and what we learn influences what we see. The camera seems to have been invented because of the never-ending desire for our human mind to discover and to record the power found in an image. Painting and Drawing too allow for such, but they must be created from the memory, the photograph, or the imagination.
But with photography, whether the image made is to create memories of special times, people, or places that we connect with in our lives, the art of seeing those things and attempting to record the emotion felt is part of this never-ending desire to see and experience this incredile life of space, time, and beauty revealed by light and circumstance. And it is immediate. With the digital technology we have been utilizing the last decade in particular, there has beeen greater advancements in shorter periods of time. And this ability to see and record is even more fulfilling now with the incredible technology available.
I love the imagery found with, on, within water. Water reflects light. It draws us to look. As a photographer I am drawn to look at water, waters, in as many variations as I can find. More often I am drawn to the reflections on the surface of the water of the place in which the water is found. I find that seeing within this world of reflected light on the surface of the water provides an endless array of imagery to develop and record. It is a world within a world. The image can be as deep or as shallow as the actual water itself. And it is always changing - changing by and through and in the light...
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