A GREAT photo captures a moment that transcends the sum of its technical elements. It can have a mood that evokes an emotion of peace and tranquility or excitement and exhilaration. It doesn’t have to tell a story in a narrative way; it doesn’t have to have animals or people; or be taken in some exotic location. A great photo can convey a moment in time in such a way that puts the viewer in the present of that moment much like a good book can take you to places you’ve never seen before. Or, it may be that one photo out of a thousand that captures that moment of heightened tension between hunter and prey. It is the challenge and persistence of searching, capturing, and processing a great photo that is the art of photography.
The challenge of capturing a great photo, is what the photographic artist is always striving for; it is what drives him out into the cold before the sun rises with the hope of capturing a scene during light’s golden hour or to obliviously consume an hour while gradually stalking an animal, earning its trust, so that it may be approached close enough to clearly photograph its natural behavior.
I believe it not the end
result - a great photo - that drives the photographer, but instead the journey
that comes with capturing it. - Jeff
