civilized ku # 390 ~ just because it caught my eye

Red cabbage / salad ~ Montreal, CA • click to embiggenOK. So I pictured it because it caught my eye - a picturing act that is all too common with me. I tend to think and act along the lines of -

Photography is never more strong in its emotional appeal or in the authority of its statement than when recording incidents in the life of man or man’s reaction to the life around him. Here is one province where it can be said with some certainty that the camera does not lie. It cannot afford to try. - Norman Hall

All thanks to the digital gods that storage space is cheap.

Comments

[Sven W]

As a hobby photographer, 99% of my pictures are due to a subject "catching my eye". All good practice for the 1% of times I'm asked to make a picture of something for someone else.

And yes, I've been known to photograph a visually appealing plate of food in front of me.