Jack...! ...your statement which I consider more seriously than the inbuild smiles suggest, actually made me some sort of depressed.Ai -- I don't disagree with you much at all when we get down to it. I still do photography because I enjoy the process from a hobbyist standpoint; I find it therapeutic. But my excitement over results has morphed to the point they don't really juice me anymore -- it's still the simplicity of "being in the outdoors" when I shoot landscapes, hanging with like-minded people when we do workshops, and looking for the evasive "one in a million" keeper shot. To that end, I could reasonably accomplish all of it with my iPhone, but I do get some juice from using decent gear and absolutely prefer the feel of the legacy equipment in my hand whilst doing it Plus it gives me something to talk about here :ROTFL::ROTFL::ROTFL:
No that is perhaps an exaggeration, but with some thruth in it.
I guess its also in some way to do with our age, and the following mindset.
Well I have still this lust for silly pictures, to some sort of way of setting me free, free from the limitations we build up around ourselves....
we are placed in the gap between making "over-seriously" pictures and the lust for doing "the wild things".
How to get over the book-keeper instinct, so to speak.
But I can't get them done, and I do think that we are our own too-hard-judges and our own limitations and restrictions.
It reminds me, while I was very regually wisiting the art museum Louisiana, north of Copenhagen, since I was about 16, when I got some sparetime, I was there. They had some painting of a danish Painter Oluf Höst, my absolute favorit. And if you go through his production it becomes clear, that he is lifting his ability and quality in his painting by high measures after he hit the age of 60 year. He was thereafter sort of liberating himself, setting himself free. That happens to several artists
My statement is: we have come to an age where we can allow ourselves to set us free. Think about it.
Therefore we have to reinvent freedom, inspiration and creativity, and get it out beyound our physical limitations
And in that proces, there will be fotprints do be done in our pictures. Let them be done !
Amen
Thorkil
Ps sorry for spelling and so.