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Defining myself as a Photographer!

Posted by on July 22, 2012

Last Friday I went out with my photography group for the evening.  We walked along the Sunset Strip capturing what was happening before us.  Each of us had a way of going about things.  In these practices it often takes me awhile to find my groove, to find my energy with what I’m looking to capture.

The first shot I finally was happy with was this one below:

It had all of the elements I was finally looking for: color, beauty, serenity.   And the environment just made it work.

Then from that point I crossed the street and little window displays began to take hold of me:

And on that drive home as I thought of the pictures I took that night, and the next day when I played around with my photos I begin to question who I was as a photographer.

What type of things do I gravitate towards?  What do I see with my eyes that others miss or keep on walking by.  One part during the night there was a building “The Sunset Towers” which had a ton of glass surrounding it.  The building is actually pretty bland.  But, for me, as a photographer, I saw it as an opportunity to create a self portrait.  To play around with the glass to see what I could come up with:

And what I realized for myself is that I have a different way of looking at things.  I have an eye for the abstract, but making that abstract beautiful in the pictures around me.  It is what my eye gravitates towards, and what I enjoy taking photos of the most.   I love sculptures, they make me happy 😉

Now the next thing I need to figure out is what will I do with this knowledge!

Have you defined yourself as a photographer or figured out what kind of things your eye gravitates towards more than anything else? Lets have a conversation here.

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