Hi Reader
A photograph can show us a moment.
A creature. A gesture. A landscape. A particular arrangement of light and color.
But there is always a world beyond the edges of the frame.
It cannot show the hours spent looking for the subject, what happened before the shutter was pressed, or what was happening inside the photographer at that precise moment.
And photography doesn't necessarily have to reproduce reality literally.
It can document, interpret, transform, or become something entirely abstract.
Because every photograph is also an expression of how someone sees.
Two photographers can stand in exactly the same place, looking at exactly the same subject, and come away with completely different photographs.
The subject hasn't changed.
The experience of seeing it has.
I wrote about this, and about everything that can exist beyond the edges of a photograph, in my new blog post.
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The Things a Photographer Can't Show
A photograph can show us a moment.
It can show us a creature, a gesture, a landscape, a particular arrangement of light and color. It can freeze something that existed for only a fraction of a second and make it available to someone who was not there.
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I hope it makes you look at your own photographs a little differently.
Cynthia