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A Photographic Affair

July 28, 2008 in Art, Media & Design, Photography · One comment

After a week of camp and using my camera extensively and often, I have finally been formally bitten by the photography bug. I adore taking pictures of people. For a while in high school, I was smitten by landscape and nature, and while I still try to take pictures of that, I feel there is so much more to capture and so much more challenge in portraiture photography. You have to try to catch the best and most interesting moments that show a relationship, you have to get close, but not so close that they clam up and it’s just another smiling face. There’s emotion. There’s a story. There’s all the complexity of the human tapestry that you are challenged to capture in an instant.

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