Manzanita
The attraction of photographing what's offered is the losing one's self in the moment.
You don't think about your job. You don't think about the economy. You don't think about swine flu, how many calories are in a bag of chili cheese Fritos, whether homeless people take care of their dogs, your mortgage, or if you have enough earthquake supplies at home.
You're just there, with the light and your camera and a few simple, strong feelings, and you are making something which is completely of the moment, it envelopes the moment and transfers it into something not quite complete, but lasting, so that it eventually becomes not just an emblem for that moment, but the moment itself. And so in that way, photographing what's offered is like making music and the photograph you make is like that music frozen forever for you to come back to and listen to and love again, and that moment and your singing in it is translated into something new and different, but also alive and real and fiercely independent because even though it is from you, it is also utterly of that uncontrolled moment too, when you were alive and well and being alone felt ok.
Manzanita
The attraction of photographing what's offered is the losing one's self in the moment.
You don't think about your job. You don't think about the economy. You don't think about swine flu, how many calories are in a bag of chili cheese Fritos, whether homeless people take care of their dogs, your mortgage, or if you have enough earthquake supplies at home.
You're just there, with the light and your camera and a few simple, strong feelings, and you are making something which is completely of the moment, it envelopes the moment and transfers it into something not quite complete, but lasting, so that it eventually becomes not just an emblem for that moment, but the moment itself. And so in that way, photographing what's offered is like making music and the photograph you make is like that music frozen forever for you to come back to and listen to and love again, and that moment and your singing in it is translated into something new and different, but also alive and real and fiercely independent because even though it is from you, it is also utterly of that uncontrolled moment too, when you were alive and well and being alone felt ok.