While watching the 4-H youngsters going about their business at MontanaFair in Billings this month, I was struck by a parallel. Here I am in 2009, at a fair ground: a photojournalist, making pictures of cowboys in every direction I look. Don’t any of us know that none of us are supposed to exist?”
[...]Professional photojournalists have only their eye, their experience and their work ethic to create lasting images. It has nothing to do with what kind of lariat they’re carrying.
[...] if you can’t make a great picture in your own backyard, it isn’t going to happen anywhere else.
Nice piece by Kenneth Jarecke on the Lens Blog.
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Man, this is really well said. And it can be applied to so many different creative disciplines. Like, magazine publishing, for instance…
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Posted 26 Aug 2009 at 11:50 am ¶“… if you can’t make a great picture in your own backyard, it isn’t going to happen anywhere else.”
This one simple statement will stay with me for a long time.
Thanks Rob for highlighting this beautiful essay by Kenneth Jarecke. I saw the photos on the Times site but overlooked the writing. I loved both in the end.
I may never meet the photographer but I feel like I have made a new friend.
Today, I was running a bunch of errands and juggling way too many bags and packages on public transportation, sans camera, but I was looking, making pictures in my mind with this sentence as the defining melody.
It’s what I continue to love about this amazing blog.
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Posted 27 Aug 2009 at 12:27 am ¶An astounding essay. Thanks Rob, for pointing it out.
Tim
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Posted 28 Aug 2009 at 2:31 pm ¶“Don’t any of us know that none of us are supposed to exist?”
That’s a great quote.
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Posted 28 Aug 2009 at 4:39 pm ¶I want to live in a world where this is Rob’s blog topic that get’s nearly 300 comments. Alas, it’s a world that doesn’t exist.
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