Monday, March 9, 2009

7 days...

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the photographs for today come from our trip a couple of years ago to belize city. i love these shots because they were pretty much the first ones i ever took. most of them were blurry and just plain stinkers. "es es stinky." thanks ry. i honestly had no idea how to use dad's camera. i didn't know what all the fancy schmancy buttons did or what an f stop was. i'm not sure i do now for that matter, but i'm learning and content to just point, shoot and hope for now. i don't love these because of their photographic quality...i'm really a complete freshman at this point. i just loved pressing the button and seeing the story that popped up on the nifty little screen on the back of the camera. i found joy in it. in them.

what i love about these shots is what i have come to learn from the joy and struggle in their faces. it's apparent and it's real and they're not scared to show what they're going through. most of the shots i took on that trip were awful, but the stories told through the blur and/or lack of light taught me a ton.

my dad always tells me the difference between professional (him) and recreational (me) photographers is that most professionals never show you the stinkers! most never show the over-saturated or under-produced stuff that lands in the trash bin on their desktop. most will only show you their best and that's what you see. and that's totally fine and i completely understand.

but i kinda like the stinkers. maybe it's because i take A LOT of them or maybe it just reminds me that i have yet to arrive. dad has shown me that there is beauty in the stinkers. i just have to look past whether or not i like the lighting or the color and see what the picture is really saying. all i'm saying is i don't ever want to get to the point where all i'm worried about is the lighting and the actions and the billions of colors and i miss the reason i came to love photography in the first place...the story that's told on the nifty screen on the back of the camera.

sure, i want the shot to be absolutely perfect, but not so much as to miss the the story that's captured.

thanks dad and happy birthday.

g

4 comments:

Julia Copeland said...

GORDO YOU NEED WORDS!!!!!!

YOU PROMISEEEDDD!!!!

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HEEYY gordo finally wrote words, yes! very good gordo-the pics are wonderful, always are!!

julia :]

garrett gregory said...

i wrote words. you're welcome.