Blog Prompts #8, #9, #10

#8 “My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.” ~Richard Avedon.

Basically we're not just taking photographs of random people we're taking photos of people we find interesting in places we also find that interest us. They may be doing something unexpected that we want to capture and remember or show off to others. It's all about what we are into that we take photos to capture them. 

#9 “You don't take a photograph, you make it.” ~Ansel Adams



We aren't just snapping the shutter to take a photo. We're looking for that right light, searching for that perfect position, seeking out that one scene that fits our mood. We don't just snap, we create that's what makes photograph art.

#10 “All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.” ~John Berge

I agree with Mr. Berge photos are what we forget and help us to remember what we have forgotten but with paintings its not always what we remember but what we see too. Paintings can be two things where photos are only one and that is a memory of what is forgotten. And that forgotten memory can be interpreted in many ways by many different people for example when two people are sitting on a bench in a park one person may say they are on a date another may say they're waiting for someone to come and that neither person knows the other. Photographs are open to interpretation that's what makes them interesting as well.