Some things never change. But then some things, as we all know change so fast that we don’t know what happened. I guess that is why so many people like photos and photography. It is a means of stopping time, if only for that moment, hopefully with the emotion and context present. Thinking about the time before photography, and excluding paintings, that were not true to life until much later, sculpture seems to have played a similar roll of stopping time in the past.
These thoughts come as the Grey Cup is about to be played on Sunday – boys (and girls) being boys… and well girls. Young and old coming together around a collective event to not only enjoy each other’s company, but perhaps to also freeze time as well. Allowing them to say later – remember when we watched/went to the game?
They also come after doing a couple of shoots over the last couple of weeks noticing the slight differences in focus and DOF of the 7D vs the 30D. It shouldn’t be, but I swear, the 7D DOF is shallower than the 30D. I also have a hunch that the focus might in fact be too good – or maybe thinking too much on its own. I’ve almost got 1000 shots on the body now, so I’m on my way to 10k, but even though I’ve got lots of shots left before mastery, I’m realizing that I am indeed mastering different things than the first time around.
This reminds me of what my Tae-Kwon-Do instructor once said about getting a Black Belt – now you are ready to learn. I will never call myself a master or expert photographer for that reason. I know that there is always more to learn. There is always someone better at something who may be willing to teach or from whom I can learn vicariously. There are also always things I can teach others and in that learn more myself.
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