Wandershots

Photographs always have two sides to them, the image the photographer sees and the image the viewer sees.  Each with a completely different view from the other.  When the camera mirror flips, the shutter snaps and the photograph is captured, an instance of the photographers life is captured and their memory of the moment affects the way they see the image.

For the viewer it is always different, they are  presented with an instant scene, a window to a time and place they never were before.  Untainted by knowledge of the event, their only sensory input is visual, from which the other senses can be imagined, a balmy summer day, warm on the skin, with bird song in the air and the scent of flowers blooming.

 
The photographer has to be in the right place at the right time, the camera has to capture the scene, but it is the viewer that has to do most of the work.  Absorb the colour, form, texture, detail and atmosphere of the image and let themselves be absorbed by more than just the image before their eyes.  As the camera has taught the photographer how to see the world in different ways, it is the job of the photographer to pass this joy onto those who view their images.

.. either that or I just like taking photos of Ladybirds in the Sun.

Enjoy!