{"id":9011,"date":"2019-06-13T11:39:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T10:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/?p=9011"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:39:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T10:39:38","slug":"observational-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2019\/06\/13\/observational-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Observational Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

My main hobby is photography, as I have frequently written about here. Although I mostly enjoy taking pictures, I also get pleasure from hanging out with other \u201ctogs\u201d, talking about photography etc. At my camera club, instead of taking a break over the summer, we have a series of member-led evenings. I was easily persuaded to do a talk and that is what I will be doing this evening. I received the request some weeks ago, so, in the meantime, I needed to ponder what to speak about \u2026<\/p>\n

Although I have been doing photography all my adult life – certainly for more than 40 years – I do not feel that I have ever found my \u201cgroove\u201d. I have never established a clear style or concentrated on a particular genre. Most photographers start out having a go at everything – landscape, portraiture, sport, still live, macro, natural history \u2026 – but eventually settle down to one or two genres in which to specialize.<\/p>\n

I realized, after various people asked me what kind of photos I take, that I did not have a simple answer. So I started pondering what gives me most pleasure photographically. I arrived that a simple conclusion: I get satisfaction\/pleasure from seeing and capturing an image that many other people have not seen [or cannot see]. Often, such images are looking at something from a different angle, abstracting something [shooting just a small part] or juxtaposing multiple subjects. Other images are much simpler, but commonly ephemeral [they only exist for a very short time]. I have heard someone comment that I do a lot of abstract images. This is true, but there is usually some clue as to what the photographic subject was. I decided to illustrate my conclusion in my talk, which takes its title from my naming of my \u201cgenre\u201d: Observational Photography<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here are a few example images:<\/p>\n

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My personal photography website – Drawing with Light<\/a> [which is what the word \u201cphotography\u201d means] – is my Instagram gallery, where I post something most days. You can find many examples of my work there.<\/p>\n

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