michael_cunningham5 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 <p>If you have to give someone a one sentence answer as you what it is you want to achieve from a photograph, or your photographs collectively, what would that be?<br>I will take a shot myself ... <br><br />"For me it would be to elicit questions, feelings or mystery in the viewer ... if you like a desire to explore." </p><p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie H Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 <p>... 'achieve' rankles ... but I will answer anyway.</p> <p>I'm a conduit for condensations out of the firmament.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 <p>Making photographs helps me learn how to see.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelChang Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 <p>Nothing deep - just something that makes me happy. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Schaefer Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 <p>Makes me happy to create images that manifest my vision and/or help recall memories - the more so if others can relate to the images too (and even better if I can make truckloads of money with them).</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member69643 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 <p>Documenting the most boring and mundane places, people and things of the 21st Century. I live in Iowa, so there's no shortage.</p> <p>:)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim_Lookingbill Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 <p>To intensify my appreciation of living in the now always mindful it can change as quickly as a shutter release but linger in my mind for what seems an eternity knowing the photo will always appear mysteriously different but fresh years later reminding me I will change along with my perception as the now of the past becomes the now of the future looking at the prints or online gallery.</p> <p>I photograph to show how it changes reality to me and hopefully to others. When I look back through all my images I want them to make me feel and/or say to myself..."What is this place? It's like nothing I've ever seen before but I swear I was there when I tripped the shutter. I've made my mundane local surroundings the local town folk seem to take for granted feel like a dream".</p> <p>Have I achieved that? I think so.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Kahn Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 <p>Satisfaction.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Murphy Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 <p>Photography to me is a means of expression as I ride the arrow of time</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_6502147 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 <p>A reflection of my exploration. The iconic stuff is there, but it doesn't count for much :>).</p> <p>Les</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjmurray Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 <p>Capture interesting things to share with others.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Make people interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 <p>If you feel the need answer that question....</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 Just the experience of engaging in the process ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 <p>Enjoyment.</p> <p>Where is Fred G in the world.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 <p>Sort of like the folk in my posted photo.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie H Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 <p>Allen, I think it's your turn to start a new thread. Been a while. Come on, give us something to read ...</p> <p>How about, in contrast to your caption above "humanity ... us," this description of inner city life:</p> <blockquote> <p>"Life is going to work, coming home, making sure every entrance is firmly locked ... man is wolf to man and every night is a full moon." [filmmaker Charles Burnett]</p> </blockquote> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 <p>"Allen, I think it's your turn to start a new thread. Been a while. Come on, give us something to read ..." Julie</p> <p>Indeed it has been a time...let me ponder on that thought for a while. </p> <p>"How about, in contrast to your caption above "humanity ... us," this description of inner city life:" Julie</p> <blockquote> <p>"Life is going to work, coming home, making sure every entrance is firmly locked ... man is wolf to man and every night is a full moon." [filmmaker Charles Burnett]</p> <p>Contains a truth but only offering a very limited horizon....we are about so much more.</p> </blockquote> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_senesac Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 <p>For this person within a world where people place great value in <strong>beauty</strong>, landscape and nature photography, has been a vehicle that over years over decades, has evolved and sharpened my ability to better sense, experience, and relate to visual aesthetic beauty that I can then share with others as <strong>photographs</strong>.<br /> <br />David<br> <p><img src="http://www.davidsenesac.com/2015_Trip_Chronicles/NY00790-3w.jpg" alt="" width="532" height="888" /></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhuij Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 <p>I shoot two kinds of photography:<br> 1. Portraits on my DSLR of various types, where my aim is to create images that the client loves. I enjoy this type of photography but mostly it's just there to keep my hobby somewhat self-sustaining.<br> <br />2. Personal work which is almost all done on various formats of film. This focuses on nature, where my goal is to capture photos that contain at least part of the emotion of what it's like to BE in that place and admire the beauty of it. I like experimenting with new ways to help the experience of viewing one of my photos convey the experience better, and for that reason I've been shooting and printing a lot of orthostereo photographs lately.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photoriot Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 <p>I want people to be looking at my pics for as long as civilization exists - it's based on losing myself in books as a child and feeling that the authors were still alive and I living through them. As an adult, I added science to my icons, so I want to be a new Isaac Newton, too. Taking photos with this in mind, I just try to follow my instincts in the hope that it will be the most engaging to people of my type of personality. I figure the sense of reward I feel from lining things up in various ways represents a sort of potential surface in a region of the brain that I am attempting to map. For the bigger project, I'm beginning to incorporate more photographers' work into my site as collaborators, since I'm rather limited in my taste and I want universal appeal. More brain exploration and reward comes from assigning and refining descriptions to create links between the pictures. I'm also working on a pure experimental science side project, taking pics of San Francisco landmarks from every direction to meld in a neural net someday. </p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 <p>I suppose my requirements are quite mundane - to refresh my memories of sights I have enjoyed in the past. If others like them, so be it, but this is not a contributory factor.</p> <p>Tony</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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