Why Photography!

The Passion of Photography!

It is a great thing to have the passion of photography but even greater is to be good at it. I have the passion, the talent less so.

However, in my quest for knowledge and inspiration - I stumbled across a documentary

"Finding Vivian Maier" http://www.findingvivianmaier.com/ 

This is such a intriguing and tragic story of a woman with a great passion and talent but not able to show her work to the world.

We are only now seeing it through someone else publishing and displaying her work.

To view her work http://www.vivianmaier.com/

www.vivianmaier.com

She is able to stop that moment in time with her pictures and capture the exact emotions. She did not have digital camera like me to pick and choose she just seemed to know when to press the button.

I have found this story quite emotional for some reason - I think that she did have some issues but if she was alive in this day in age with the talent that she had - she would have been posting all her work on the web - probably anomalously - but still it would have been out there and she would have saw how much joy her pictures would have brought to other people.

I know that my photos will never ever be that good but I am glad that I have seen Vivian's work to inspire me.

The photographs of street photography make me want to expand my skill base - it was obvious that she was not pushing her self on people to take pictures - as most of them are candid and you can feel the emotion in them.

As I looked through my small amount of photos I noticed a quite disturbing thing, I have managed to make it look most places that I have taken pictures that there is no one there - the people are missing.

If they are there then they are more than likely people that I know - I for some reason to not take pictures of strangers. Maybe I feel as if I am violating their privacy. What ever it is in my mind, I have found it quite disturbing.

I have found some with people: (I have posted one - if you look closely you can see people walking away in the distance.) No were near the talent of Vivian. Thank you for the inspiration.

Paris Street at Christmas

Follow-Up: Had lots of things to do today - did not do much was detracted by the documentary. Need to re-write list of things to do for tomorrow.  oh well - what I can not do today I will try and do tomorrow or not.