UntitledTake a Pause, Capture an Image

I really don’t know how to write an artist statement although I’ve been told that if I write what I feel about the photos I take that should do the trick. Just because I take pictures this does not, in my view, make me an artist. I stand by this assertion. I have photo skills taught to me by people who many cases were much older than me, although I’ve now caught up to them. I bridle at observing photo rules as laid down by the Professional Photographer Association or any other self-sanctimonious association. In my view, if a photo grabs and holds the viewer’s attention, that is sufficient to consider them a success in this short attention span world in which we live. Do I have a working knowledge of what it takes to overcome the limitations of working in a 2D medium? Of course, I do. After many years I have finally made peace with the fact that image capture is now maybe only forty percent of the success of the final image. I overcame my resistance to my belief that I must get it all in the camera after I press the shutter. Post production tools, if I plan for their use when I’m capturing the image, allows for the creation of images that existed previously only in my imaginatio