Photography
As a writer, I am often reminded of how slow my craft is when I am called to describe a setting or a character. Sometimes on a good day I am able to give my readers a picture in a few short words or a few short sentences; but other times it takes paragraphs.
Now if I were a photographer, I could give you, the viewer, one photo. That photo would require me, a writer, to write pages or even volumes. Then, however I think about the number of photos the photographer must take to get that 'one insightful photo'. I think of their frustration with lighting, when, if outdoors, nature changes their prospective image every moment, requiring them to adapt.
I, as a writer, may rewrite a thousand times. The moment is not gone in an instant. So to all the authors/artists of photography books/images, I salute your work.
K. B. Pellegrino
Now if I were a photographer, I could give you, the viewer, one photo. That photo would require me, a writer, to write pages or even volumes. Then, however I think about the number of photos the photographer must take to get that 'one insightful photo'. I think of their frustration with lighting, when, if outdoors, nature changes their prospective image every moment, requiring them to adapt.
I, as a writer, may rewrite a thousand times. The moment is not gone in an instant. So to all the authors/artists of photography books/images, I salute your work.
K. B. Pellegrino
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