Photography As Art

Visual Art: the outcome of creative effort as a means of expression appreciated by sight.

Photography: the act of taking a picture with the aid of a device that records light, with particular care given to composition and creative transformation of the image.

I view photography as art, however few images taken by a camera result in art. Being beautiful, powerful, or captured, does not make a thing art. Art arises through creative intent and honest effort.

Caring Less Is Careless

Hundreds die and thousands are injured or made homeless by a devastating earthquake. News outlets give relatively little space to reporting the disaster.

While my differences with someone may lesson my interaction with them, my compassion and feelings should not be reduced by physical, political, religious, or cultural distance.

With distance I should care no less for those in need, for caring less is careless.

 

With Loss: Love

From One to Many

Some convey their ideas and thoughts using detached, explicit language. Yesterday I presented a narrative about the importance I place on emotional empathy. Everything I write is from my point of view, but I hope what I write offers more than a diary of personal experience.

I try to show my feelings and thoughts in equal measure so they have the chance to matter, to you.

Every word I say, from my first to last, reveals, but only when those hearing care to return.