John Prichard's photostream  

I still photograph (current camera is a Panasonic GH1) but this last year or two I have been taking only what I intend to modify into what I felt and saw at the time. Not to get a better photograph but to assist the viewer into knowing what was recorded by my brain.

I took some art classes (not photography) and I realized that we each see/record-in-brain scenes differently ... not as an image but rather as a composite of shape recognition, filtering and feelings ... muting things we are not interested in, emphasizing things we are interested in, like color, streams, meadows, etc. The painter gets to paint what he views important from the scene but the photographer is stuck with everything. Now, with digital photography and processing, I can get closer to what my mind saw ... emphasizing/de-emphasizing color, saturation, etc. I'm somewhere between what the photograph records and what a painter paints. My aim is to make you feel what I felt and found interesting in the scene..

I sell some on this site.
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