we need to be observant of our vision and our feelings. The photos are out there if you are open to them. People are out there too and we need to be open to them more then anything else.via Rest Easy Post by Streetshooter.
Not sure why I made a photo of this, but for some reason I could not pass it without taking a few moments to see the beauty in this banal scene.
Streetshooter on Stance:
I felt an energy come into me, not over me but into me. [..] What was born back then was not just me as a photographer but a photographer with a stance. I mean it gave birth to a realization of my own self worth. [..]via Streets of Phila … A Visual Diary … Page 76 … Unheard Voices … The Stance | Streetshooter by Streetshooter.I don’t practice photography, I live it. I don’t just make photos, my photos define me as well. [..]
It requires a firm appreciation of the whole that we are and a total committed love of what we do and why we do it and how we do it.
Did ya ever feel like your going against the flow that others do? How about feeling like you’re alone and there are many others around? How about you doubt yourself and what you’re doing? Not a pretty picture huh [..]via Streets of Philadelphia … A Visual Diary … Page 37 … Olympus Pen EP-5 … One ShoT pEr ShOOt by Streetshooter.The land of complacency and mass acceptance swallows up many individual people every second. That hunger that wants to devour us has an insatiable appetite and is coming for you any minute.
When you doubt yourself, that is when you need to believe in yourself the most. Streetshooter. My favourite photoblogger!!
Streetshooter on Photography and Ambiguity:
The thing is, to have all three elements of the self - find and realize your intent. The Eye, Heart and Mind work together to find the subject and realize the intent. The entire process from start to finish is ambiguous and should be allowed to remain that way.via Streets of Philadelphia … A Visual Diary … Page 28 … Street … Deciphering and Realizing Intent by Streetshooter.
Our group stopped here about half way up Mount Gower to rest and to refuel for the second and more difficult half of our ascent of Mount Gower. For some reason I made a photo of the water with the reflection of the over head canopy and shafts of light breaking through. It was just a photo of the water, I thought. When I saw this photo on my computer screen a few weeks later, I decided it would look better in Black and White and made the transformation. In doing so a beautiful women revealed herself out of the relections in the water. I hope you can see her. Not everyone can. For me I see photos and I see people in photos.
The words Ambiguity and Uncertainity are interesting words. Closely related but very different. I think I can understand and feel the difference. Hence I would like to substitute the word ambiguous above with uncertain. I'm not exactly sure as I feel the word ambiguity has quite a few shades of meaning in that it can be difficult thing or a good thing depending on the context of its application. Post inspired by a engaging discussion with Carla. Thanks Carla.
Streetshooter on Photography and Discovery:
We all start the journey of life different, but we all end up the same. The beauty is not in the destination but in the journey itself. That means to be in the here and now [..]via Streets of Philadelphia … A Visual Diary … Page 25 … Street … Memories of Future Past … Fuji X100s by Streetshooter.During our travels thru a life with photography, certain milestones or markers make themselves evident. These are points of inspiration or interest that we are drawn to. We see these being borne in our photos. [..]
If you take the time to discover what you are doing naturally without realizing you are doing it and make an effort to discover the points in your photographic journey, you will never be bored again.
Streetshooter on Photography and Memories:
Photography is one of the seductive means of making memories. So I wonder why many aren’t aware that they are making memories. [..]via Streets of Philadelphia … A Visual Diary … Page 25 … Street … Memories of Future Past … Fuji X100s by Streetshooter.What’s really going on is that you are making memories and maybe just maybe those photos will have importance to someone. [..]
[during the Vietnam War] I became acutely aware that photography is about memories. It’s about other shit too, but memories are the main source of image information transference.[..]
See, they are not just my memories. [..] All will be forgotten of the pain that still hurts 45 years later.
the photos, well… they are just memories…………..
The very reason I bought a small digital camera in Dec 2000. And just as important as recording memories, you need to make the memories happen. You have to live while you can. And we did just that. Thanks Jenny and Jo.
Streetshooter on Art:
The beauty of art is, we are all in the same boat in the same place and yet those true to heart see things differently and attempt to make their art more of themselves then of and for anyone else.via Streets of Philadelphia … A Visual Diary … Page 20 … Street …Finding Your Way by Streetshooter.
You can’t control anything and once you accept that and stop trying to get control, then you actually get some controlvia Streets of Philadelphia … A Visual Diary … Page 15 … The Jeff Story Continues by Street Shooter.
Streetshooter on Heart and Soul:
The heart and soul live in your workvia STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA … A VISUAL DIARY … PAGE 14 by Streetshooter.
Streetshooter on Appreciation:
do what you do for you and be pleased you have the gift of sight and the love of something in your life.
via Streets of Philedephia … A Visual Diary … Page 9 … A Chat with Mother Light by Streetshooter.
In Life as in Photography.
Streetshooter on Exposing Your Heart:
if you wear your heart on your sleeve, you have to be able to live with the bumps and bruises that will happen to it.
via Streets of Philedephia … A Visual Diary … Page 5 … Dreamcatch by Streetshooter.
Streetshooter on Photography, Feeling and Responsibilty:
if you feel a photo in your heart and you see it in your heart and mind, you need to see it with the camera. [..]I like to assume responsibility for my work [..] there’s a real satisfaction to SEE something and then MAKE a photo and have it satisfy you and maybe others too. You can think how you saw the photo coming together and recall everything about it that you didn’t take the time to forget.
I think I understand but not fully.
via Streets of Philadelphia … A Visual Diary … Page 7 … Fuji X100s by Streetshooter.
I've walked to work since we moved office in Feb last year. I love it. It takes about 30 minutes and it has become an invaluable time for me to just walk and be engaged in the moment of just doing that. It gives me a chance to just think about things and I solve many problems and reflect on life a little. I have found a nice way and a few options and a couple are my favourites because how they make me feel. Often I see something that I have not noticed though I have walked past it many times. This photo is one of those things. It is just a few scratches on a peice of metal that has been painted red. I felt it, saw it, made it and I am responsible for giving it a life beyond itself. I love what photography does and these words make some sense of it all. Thanks Streetshooter.
Streetshooter on Life and Participation:
I want to be a participant in my life, not just an observer.
via Streets of Philadelphia … A Visual Diary … Page 7 … Fuji X100s by Streetshooter.
There is no one way to do anything in life. There is no path to take to get you to the magic garden. It’s inside you and always was. It’s up to you to fight and say,
I am me and good or bad, these are my photos. I love them because they are me and I am them and they do not exist without me and I don’t want to exist without them.That means that you have committed to your work and committed to make a signature that you recognize.
Via Living With Street Talk … Living With Yourself by StreetShooter.
StreetShooter writes on Photography and Intent:
Here’s some things I discovered and figured out. I am not claiming to be the inventor or Doctor of Photography. I am just a guy that’s made photography a very important of my existence and these are things I try to live by.via Streetshooter … Thoughts and Findings … Defining and Finding “Intent” by StreetShooter.There are 3 facets to photography. Eye, Heart and Mind. The Important thing is INTENT. Try to visualize a Pie. In the center is INTENT. Equally at three points are Eye, Heart and Mind. There are 3 parts because Intent is why you do things and not how you do things. The other 3 are how you do things.
All parts are the sum of one and effect each other at different times.
we must be warriors in life. As photographers we must do our work without fear of acceptance or rejection by others or by ourselves. We do our work because we must. We don’t define our work, it defines us. It makes us who we are and shows us the way to become who and what we strive to be. [..]via Philly Streets … More thoughts and Findings … Olympus Pen EP-5 by StreetShooter.you come in alone and you go out alone. It’s your camera and your life. Make photos for you and if others like them along the way and maybe buy them or collect them, wonderful, but if that’s why you made them. That’s a waste of love and life
StreetShooter on Photography and Life:
all the sudden it occurred to me that everything in the universe has the ability to teach and to learn. So even on the streets making photos the energy you receive is equal to the energy you send. So your intent is to make photos but ya know, you aren’t in it alone. [..] If life is a give and take miracle then it stands to reason that photography is also. So that means that we think we are the origin of our work but that’s not true. We are not alone in life.via Philly Street … Thoughts With … Olympus Pen EP-5 by StreetShooter.Our photographs and I am only talking about photography, are a collaboration between life and ourselves. We hope for and strive to find a synergism with the street and make the photos that represent that synergism. We can not rightfully state that we are the Origin of our work. [..]
If you are like every reader that ever was or ever will be on this blog [streetshoot.net], then you are aware that you don’t take any photographs, you collaborate wit Mother Light and The Street and you make your photos.
Tomorrow is another day and if I wake and am healthy, I’m hitting the streets. I hear tell Life is out there and I’m gonna look for it.
find the beauty (*) placed in the garden and nurtured (*) by a higher source (*), the same source (*) that nurtures (*) you, that gives life (*) to all beings. To me, when I see the garden that my wife Tanya works so diligently (*) to make fruitful and beautiful, I am humbled (*).via August 11th, 2014 … Fuji X100s …Observations (*) by Streetshooter (*).
The photographer (*) validates his time on the earth by the photos he makes. Photographers record what the planet looked like during their visit (*). We are all tourist thru life, no one gets a permanent Visa.via June 19th, 2014 … Fuji X100s is a Streetshooter’s Dream (*) by StreetShooter (*).
