So many images we see today, whether cast upon
a digital screen, or viewed upon a fine art print,
can be captures made years before. With the advent
of digital cameras, photographing light has never
been simpler. With so many images being captured
today, the mind wrestles with conflict viewing
every new image it sees.
Our mind so often thinks it has viewed this image
or one similar. My light captures are evolving
in the output as mine, even if it is an image
captured many times by untold countless photographers
before me.
I will leave an image dormant for quite some
time until I have resolved in my mind its final
output.
Time is wonderful; it allows an artist to evolve,
to experiment with different forms of media.
As I drift more to my place, black & white, the
lost craft, becomes my desire of output. Digital
color is wonderful, full of super saturated and
high contrast. My goal is to create a black & white
image that is not a copy of someone else’s,
not a silver palladium print, but an image,
that is a fine art digital output, and will
be recognized in history as just that, a fine
art print. Time will make digital output as
important as wet dark room prints. A style
unique to my mind, my vision!
The argument continues! Digital output is not
photography, it can’t be fine art! This
argument is a repeat in time, one that I’m
sure Talbot heard in the 1800’s when his
discovery was being replaced with the next generation
of printing and photography. Years from now, those
fortunate enough to have purchased their “favorite” works
of digital art will be selling their collections
as “silver prints” are sold today.
Build your collections not with the most expensive,
but with the images that you like and can afford.
You will find a theme as your collection grows.
It is this theme that will make your photography
collection a value in later years.
Resume
