Boots — Day 337
I love details. Details are what makes things great—a heaping a small things come together to make the big things. So often there are small details around us that we dismiss or overlook—the mundane around us that makes the world but are still beautiful in their own right.
I’d argue that a photographer, or cinematographer, makes it their job, or even their duty, to see the world differently. My grandfather once said to me while looking as a photo of mine, “I don’t know how you see it. I see nothing, you see a photography.”
Letting my eyes wander is part of how I made it through #AYearinPhotographs. Seeing things that otherwise I would have overlooked and saying “that’s my photograph for today.” Creativity is intuitive, instinctual, visceral, but also architectural, madness, and cognitive.
“Creativity: Madman, Architect, Carpenter, Judge. In that order.”
Many of these photos “took themselves” as I saw it and said in my mind, “take the photo.” And that’s perhaps the one thing that stands out to me. If you’re instincts tell you to photography something do it. It is the small voice that booms inside that if ignored, one will regret it.
