Hi folks
Wayne Shumaker wrote
> I was in Provincetown Massachusetts over the weekend. There are quite a
> few art galleries there but not too much in the way of photography
> compared to paintings. I have recently returned to watercolor painting
> myself, so I was interested in what people were doing these days. I
> have found that seeing through watercolor painting has affected how I
> see photographically as well as how seeing photographically affects my
> watercolor painting. (I'm very much a beginner with painting.)
>
> While in Ptown, I did not see very much in the way of art that caught
> my eye. Then I saw one painting, which turned out to be by a friend's
> grandfather done in the early 1900's. Looking at this painting, it
> dawned on me what I was not seeing in almost all of the other
> paintings. Something that I strive after in photography - that of
> capturing light. This painting showed light hitting a tree just right,
> giving it that special glow, and you knew the painting was a
> celebration of light even though it was just a tree and a house. To me,
> almost all the other paintings I saw in Ptown were just paint on a
> canvas, and not about light. I found that if the painting, no matter
> the subject, did not have a some kind of relationship to light, it did
> not interest me much. Am I now biased as a photographer? such that I
> can't see the art in art? I always thought, OK, I can't really draw,
> especially people, I must not be artistic, so I'll just do photography
> instead, and maybe someday I'll at least learn how to see.
>
> Wayne
I agree totally Wayne. I am trying to become aware of how to get the most
of light in my photographs. This photo of mine accelerated my appreciation of
how that special light can make a photo look more interesting; and also see
my contribution to the TOPE water exhibition.
http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/photography/zuikoholics/S&C.htm
Brian Swale
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