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“I am very proud of this one,” the photographer says and we can see why. There is a luminescence to the halo tinged figures before they fade into darkness, a sense of animation and liveliness in the captured moment. We were talking in Utata today about being “in the moment” – some schools of thought suggesting that a camera between you and the moment somehow lessens your ability to really “be in” and savor it.
I say that a photographer’s camera is like a painter’s eye or a musician’s ear. A tool that can amplify the moment from the fluid passage of time to a piece of time you can revisit, remember, recall, relive. If you’re not a photographer, surely a camera might seem like a barrier, a hunk of plastic and metal between you and the moment, but if you are a photographer, your camera is the way you join the moment, become one with it, share its presence.
This is a moment. Was the camera a barrier? No, I say the camera is the means by which this particular moment was not only given its full respect, but was enjoyed immensely. The photographer was not merely present “in the moment”, this is a fully lived and realized moment; this is a photograph with the presence of the moment glowing from every pixel.
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