03/01/2022
“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
– Diane Arbus (Photographer)
“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
– Richard Avedon (Photographer)
My choice quotes for today.
One of these photos I shared at the end of last year. I love it, to me, it holds a lot of mystery, slight fear, and somewhere deep down some sadness. It brings me a sense of adventure. Then I edited it again. To see what would happen if I did some changes to the sky (and some slight building tweaks). I created a love-hate relationship. I love it, the new feelings and the stories in my head I create. Yet, I hate how much it changed. Because of this stone I sit myself on when it comes to editing, the more editing and the more an image changes the more I feel disconnected from the original place, subject, day, time, etc. However, I fall more and more in love with what it does to my creative mind, suddenly wanting to create its own stories around it. I create a relationship with my photos that I struggle with. I enjoy and feel for the no edits or the light edits. I pride myself with them. Then the other part of me wants to edit heavier, wants to change the whole thing, wants it to be something else, yet the same. I create conflict with myself. Through the conflict though I come out with something that I love either way, even if others don't or even if others don't understand what the behind-the-scenes feel like.
