Tuesday
Dec092008
I'm hot!
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 01:40PM 
My ex was hot for one of my best friends
Just in case someone has just fallen from the sky, landed here on The Landscapist and has read only the last 2 entries, I feel compelled to point out that at times I make pictures just for the pure fun of it.
Reader Comments (4)
And now she is the ex, who'd a thunk it?
Don't apologize. Everyone does (take pictures for fun), or, at least they should. Hopefully, all of them are for fun.
"at times I make pictures just for the pure fun of it."
What a bizarre idea? I just got back from a Gregory Crewdson lecture thing at the Guggenheim and was happy to see I was not alone in having no interest in taking pictures that weren't deeply emotional in both the process of making them as well as the final image. Like myself, Crewdson said he feels almost uncomfortable holding a camera and disconnected from the real moment. I'd much rather stare blankly at a moose in a field then fiddle with a camera and miss the real thing. I tend to rely on you or others for photos at family gatherings and birthdays and I hardly ever come back from a vacation or trip with any evidence that I actually went anywhere.
I also have zero emotional ties to my images after they've been produced and introduced into the world. Once again I feel disconnected with them and almost view them as somebody else's. For me, it is only that release of emotional and creative energy that I get when I am creating my images that is most important, after that moment...not sure I really need to be involved?
I take a lot of pictures for fun and find Aaron's position quite alien. Mind you, I'm equally confused with the people who want to carry a camera everywhere, all the time 'because you never know when a good shot will present itself'