Photography for the soul
Over the years here at BLASTmedia we have always had a number of clients in the digital photography space. In the last 12 – 18 months this space has seen unprecedented growth and sales of digital photography cameras and accessories have single handedly outpaced nearly every category in the “consumer electronic space”.
A number of us here in the office have caught the photography bug and regularly post to our Flickr accounts and keep track of fellow photographers doing the same. There is something about capturing certain moments –certain people- and certain moods that only photography can do. My first passion is painting, but with limited time over the past few years photography has seemed to scratch the creative itch for me (I do continue to tell myself I’ll start making time to finish the 5’ x 7’ foot painting I started 6 months ago and haven’t touched since...).
Thomas Hawk is one of my favorite photographers/bloggers who currently lives in SanFrancisco and posts some fantastic photos on his blog and on his Flickr account. If you aren’t familiar with him, I suggest you add him to your news feeder as his photos and blog postings are worth consuming. Thomas has a fantastic post today, which details a photographer, Renee C. Byer, who won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for a series of 20 photographs that she ran in the Sacramento Bee chronicling Cyndie and Derek Madsen. Cyndie is a single mother of five and the photographs tell the story of her loss of her 10 year old son Derek to cancer. Of this particular series of photos Thomas says....”It's a troubling, moving and emotional series of photographs that show in the most poignant way how powerful photography can be”. After viewing the set, he couldn’t be more right.
As an artform, Photography is on the most powerful ways to detail human existence and highlight the frailty of life. It’s also a great way to blow off steam, reduce stress and capture any moment you deem important -forever.
After you’ve viewed Renee’s series, I might suggest taking a lighter look at some photos and check out my Flickr stream and another BLAST budding photography enthusiast (Chris Lucas) here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkhendricks/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26006583@N00/
Now go out and buy a camera and start capturing the moments you deem significant!