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May 2006
Ok, I have been out snapping lately but I find myself increasingly asking myself lots of questions. I wonder are the images I’m creating any good? Why am I doing it? How can I improve an image? And why do I do it?
To be honest I’m not totally sure I have an answer for any of the above. I think it’s possibly something all photographers, painters and writers do at some stage. From a photographic point of view I find myself slowing everything down before I press the shutter. Asking myself is this right, is that right, why am I taking it.
With the advent of the digital era it’s very easy to fire frames off at leisure, get lots of images and be a happy chappy. But that to me is pure sh1t. How many online photo forums, magazines do we look at and see the same image reproduced a thousand times by other photographers. Sometimes I wonder if the local tourist board has cemented a tripod in place for photographers to mount their cameras on. What can I do that’s just that little bit different is a question that’s not asked enough, and I which I find myself asking more.
Below you will see some sea cliffs. Yep they are the Cliffs of Moher. Just not from the usual clichéd angle at top. I refused to take that clichéd image that dons a million postcards on a recent trip.
Below is an image of the Burren in Co. Clare take near Black Head over looking Galway Bay. The image took almost two hours to create as I waited for just the right light. I was amazed to watch a group of photographers probably on a photographic workshop pull into the side of the road and hop out like a swat team. Take five steps on to the limestone of the Burren set up all their gear and fire of a few frames and then gone within 15minutes. Meanwhile I was there for almost another 90minutes waiting.
Well that’s it for me for this month. Where’s my Prozac!!! Are the images any good? Different? I have my opinions, but it’s for the viewer to decide.