The Dragonfruit
Fruit Digital Photography - Part 3
When experiencing something new, whether it be a new food, music, art or other endeavor, it is most important to keep an open mind and an unbiased heart. It is hard not to be set in our ways, but the one thing that keeps me looking up is the in excitement of a new discovery.
Digital photography has the propensity to seem mainstream and many people act as if all that can be photographed, has been. This is a narrow and foolish mind-set, and so I use digital photography at times to defend it's potential to open your eyes and see something that might be familiar, but witnessed with a fresh perspective.
Each person has a unique filter that they impress on their photographs. Certainly recognized as a personal style later on when an artist or photographer builds a portfolio, this style of unique attributes that that person brings to the artwork are what make the images look 'new'. It's not what they photograph, it is how they do so.
In theses photographs, I'm not trying to create a new experience with the macro photographs of an assortment of fruit; what I want is to share how I have experienced them. The camera is a tool, and the fruit is subject matter, but the act of making intimate macro photographs of that fruit may somehow reveal more about how my art-making develops than is first seen.
Each person has a unique filter that they impress on their photographs. Certainly recognized as a personal style later on when an artist or photographer builds a portfolio, this style of unique attributes that that person brings to the artwork are what make the images look 'new'. It's not what they photograph, it is how they do so.
In theses photographs, I'm not trying to create a new experience with the macro photographs of an assortment of fruit; what I want is to share how I have experienced them. The camera is a tool, and the fruit is subject matter, but the act of making intimate macro photographs of that fruit may somehow reveal more about how my art-making develops than is first seen.
