Kris,
Occasionally I think standing up—every once in a while I think standing on my
head..... my point was just taking the time to think about what you are doing
and what you want to do. It seems to me that people are always in such a
hurry to get things done that they allow themselves little time to think......
certainly shooting a lot and printing a lot are important—I don't think I
implied that they weren't. Some people think too much and never do anything—or talk
about all the time and still don't do anything.
This reminds me of that little book we had in grade school—Think & Do
Best Wishes,
Mark Nelson
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In a message dated 8/14/05 9:58:23 AM, kris@eq-photo.com writes:
>
> next Mark Nelson:
> > I think the most successful way of identifying a theme is to sit and
> think.
> This, to me, is a matter of semantics. "Thinking" can occur without
> sitting, in my humble opinion, but with camera in hand, or with
> chemistry on paper, trying things, experimenting. Rather than sitting
> and thinking, I believe producing "a body of work" is an iterative
> process. Determining what you want to photograph, trying to think it
> through while photographing, then seeing what you get when you print.
> Then going back to what you /wanted/ to photograph, asking yourself
> whether you actually did that, and then photographing some more. Then
> printing some more, editing, selecting, reshooting, reprinting...
> FINALLY, of course, you have to give it up and walk away from it. But
> hopefully not before you've come away with something you can be happy with.
>
Received on Sun Aug 14 12:07:22 2005
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