About briburt  

My life w/ photography

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." -- Henry David Thoreau

"The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it." - Ansel Adams

"Gear has very little to do with photography." - Chase Jarvis




My philosophy: I love deep rich colors. I love simple lines. I like unusual perspectives on the familiar. To me, photography is about light and color and composition, and there aren't any real prescriptive rules about what subject you should shoot or what methods are "proper" to use to get the effect you want. I have no problem with spending 5 days processing a multiple exposure photo or 5 minutes processing a single shot, so long as the shot pleases my eye in some way. My only rule is "whatever works," and whatever pleases my eye rules.

"You don't take a photograph, you make it." - Ansel Adams

I firmly believe that it is the person behind the camera, and not the camera itself or the software processing that makes the shot. The person's vision of what the photo should be is all that really matters. Some of my own shots that have pleased me the most were shot with a point-and-shoot. And my digital SLR has certainly captured its share of stinkers.

I strongly believe that photographic gear and technology are the least interesting parts of the photographic process, and discussions about gadgets and gear or about software or darkroom processing or about "Nikon vs. Canon" etc are all particularly irritating to me. I also find including all the technical details and settings of a particular photo to be more than a little tedious and tiresome.

In any case, that's a little about me and why I love photography and what drives me to spend so much time and creative energy on my photos.

You can order prints of my work at http://prints.brianburt.net.
If you wish to license my work or obtain permission to use my work, please contact me via Flickrmail.

... and now for all the legal stuff:

All pictures in my photostream are copyright © 2008-2009 Brian Burt. All rights reserved.

You may not use or reproduce the photos in any way without my express permission. If you'd like to use one of my images for any reason, please contact me to obtain permission and licensing information.





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