Woods, Waters, and Wildlife: Is Photography an Art Kind?

by John Jefferson

 

 

Everybody carries a digital camera, these days. Some turned proficient. Few turned professionals. Camera inventors Nicephore Niepce and Louis Daguerre most likely had no thought the place it might lead.

Of course, images is an artwork type! Think Ansel Adams. Or my late good friend, Galen Rowell. Or modern picture artists Earl Nottingham and Wyman Meinzer.

Their espresso desk books are finest proof. Study them. Try to duplicate what made their images particular. Imitation is the sincerest type of flattery.

But not everybody who releases a digital camera shutter turns into an artist. Kris Kristofferson, whom I photographed a number of instances, was requested what made a track a rustic track. Kris replied, “The singer makes it a country song.”

Likewise, the one holding the digital camera is the one who creates artwork – even when that digital camera is a cellular phone. Beauty and Art are within the eyes … and fingers of the beholder.

Our residence’s partitions have my enlarged, framed pictures and a exceptional picture my spouse lately captured with a cellular phone she swiftly borrowed from her daughter. People requested me how I took it. I didn’t; She did!

My first makes an attempt at artwork had been impressed by panorama work by the late Porfirio Salinas, the famend San Antonio artist who created artwork on canvas of bluebonnets and different Texas scenes.

My shakily targeted pictures of fall colours at Lost Maples State Natural Area one autumn didn’t come shut. The huge tooth maple bushes there are spectacular in November, however climate and crowds interfered, stopping quivering fingers from holding my digital camera nonetheless.

Señor Salinas won’t have acknowledged My maples!

Disappointment led to self-criticism. Images improved slowly. Camera retailer staff, skilled critiques, and far uncovered movie taught me.

I realized early morning gentle was moody, however late afternoon gentle added heat to footage. Tripods had been cumbersome, however price their weight — and price.

Call Lost Maples a number of weeks earlier than going for colour standing and reservations. Try to go through the week on account of weekend crowding.

Most of Texas has fall colour — particularly East Texas. Look for it!

JJ