Against The Shadows
If you were to take 100 photographers to the same location at the same time, they would come up with 100 different images. We all have our own unique way of seeing and creating photographs. That is also what keeps us improving and evolving. At least for me that is true. I admire photographers who work in different styles than I do. I can understand and enjoy their images but no matter how hard I try, I cannot create photographs like they do. The same is true, I believe, for each of us.
This particular image is a perfect example of what I am trying to say. I was out one fall morning in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with a group of photographers. Steve Winslow was leading the excursion and had been to this very location many times before. After a wonderful morning of photographing, we went to breakfast then went our separate ways. Several months later I met up with Steve at a convention where I had entered this image in competition. He asked me where I had taken the photo. He seemed surprised when I told him that it was that morning in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and he was there. He had not seen this image before, I believe, because we have different visions. Not better or worse, just different. If we truly put our hearts into our work then we will create meaningful images that are uniquely our own.
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