Peter van der Veer's photostream  

Photography is about everything else.
So it's studying and documenting everything else through photography that interests me.

I don't believe photography can be learned from itself. Doing that is as logical as trying to elevate yourself by pulling up your shoelaces or going into ever decreasing circles.
Photography is what we think put through a camera.

"Frozen in time":
The idea that an otherwise elusive moment in time can be frozen permanently, was an initial attraction to photography. The notion was triggered by our mortality from learning about Pompei as a "time capsule" at about age nine which coincided with the extreme shock of my grandfather's passing; his physical being had suddenly evaporated into just intangible memories.
So there is a certain melancholy of time passing while trying to catch and preserve enjoyable moments with photography.
So, in taking photographs,there is time concern for everyone and everything.

I am a dedicated teacher and have become devoted to demonstrating the simple obvious.
Throughout history we've found the biggest mysteries have turned out to be the simple obvious. People only need to think logically about what they're looking at. 500 years ago, by Galileo and others, it was demonstrated how to do this; how everyone can instantly comprehend science (the universe around us) without effort. The lesson, if learned, saved lots of unnecessary words. Whole libraries of speculative fallacies were then and can continue to be debunked. The lesson was forgotten and few are learning now from today's observant teachers such as David Attenborough..
Our world is communicating visually now while humanity continues to blind itself with words. It is visual literacy with it's short cuts which is the old grammar for new learning about everything that exists all around us.
Unfortunately, most people are currently doing the opposite; not only shutting down, but also inverting their instinct and senses into a state of perpetual reduction with the aid of self indulgent personal amusement. Today's technological advantage is being used as a disadvantage. Cognitive development is going backwards.

Photography is an ideal catalyst and medium through which visual literacy and accelerated learning can start.