“A good photographer records; a great photographer reveals.” –Skyler Reid
What do you look for in a photo? Are you looking for a record, or in truth, are you looking for a memory?
When I look at a photo that I have taken it takes me back to a moment in time that brings about memories, feelings, sometimes smells... it is amazing. I love the ocean and the beach, and when I look at a photo of the beach that is what I remember. An amazing moment in time. A moment that is very important to me and holds value to me and to my family.
I recently read an article from a bride turned photographer and she cries every time she looks at her wedding photos. She refuses to print her wedding pictures and she is in all reality embarrassed by her own wedding photos. She was married on the beach and had the perfect wedding, and had everything, but, when asked about her wedding and what she would have done differently she tells people that she wishes that she had not fed her guests. This statement blows me away, until I look at the wedding pictures that she posted. She had an amazing wedding. The wedding was beautiful! However, the photos that she has to remember that day are not. The photos recorded the day, but they did not reveal or capture the day. There is a difference. Believe it or not it is a fact.
Photos are the way that many tell their stories. It is the way that we as a human race carry our stories to the next generation. With each photo there is a story and with the sight of that photo we can tell that story. Once the story is told, others who have heard the story can now tell it when they see the photo. Virtually I believe that we as the human race have done over time is that we have evolved. We have gone from drawing our photos on cave walls to placing them on paper and into albums. Yet we still use them in the same way. To capture the moment, and to tell the story with them.
As a photographer with every click of my shutter I aspire to capture a memory. I want it to be that photo that takes you back to that moment. I want it to remind you of all of your favorite things about that moment. The smells, the feelings, the emotions, the tastes, all of it. That is what I want my photos to do for my clients. I want my photos to capture that moment when it is most perfect and to hold that perfect moment for generations to come. I want my photos to last and to be able to tell the story of this perfect moment for generations to come.
I hope that when you plan your next event, or even just click the shutter of your own camera that you remember what I have said today. I aspire to reveal the story with each photo that I take for not only myself but for each and every one of my clients as well.
If you would like to read the article and see the photos that I have referenced today. You can visit http://www.ashleywilburphotography.com/blog/glens-falls-photographer-i-would-rather-i-had-not-fed-my-guests/
Photos are the way that many tell their stories. It is the way that we as a human race carry our stories to the next generation. With each photo there is a story and with the sight of that photo we can tell that story. Once the story is told, others who have heard the story can now tell it when they see the photo. Virtually I believe that we as the human race have done over time is that we have evolved. We have gone from drawing our photos on cave walls to placing them on paper and into albums. Yet we still use them in the same way. To capture the moment, and to tell the story with them.
As a photographer with every click of my shutter I aspire to capture a memory. I want it to be that photo that takes you back to that moment. I want it to remind you of all of your favorite things about that moment. The smells, the feelings, the emotions, the tastes, all of it. That is what I want my photos to do for my clients. I want my photos to capture that moment when it is most perfect and to hold that perfect moment for generations to come. I want my photos to last and to be able to tell the story of this perfect moment for generations to come.
I hope that when you plan your next event, or even just click the shutter of your own camera that you remember what I have said today. I aspire to reveal the story with each photo that I take for not only myself but for each and every one of my clients as well.
If you would like to read the article and see the photos that I have referenced today. You can visit http://www.ashleywilburphotography.com/blog/glens-falls-photographer-i-would-rather-i-had-not-fed-my-guests/
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