DO YOU TAKE SNAPSHOTS OR PHOTOGRAPHS?

DO YOU TAKE SNAPSHOTS OR PHOTOGRAPHS?

If you want to be a photographer, it’s time that you took photographs and not snapshots.  Being a photographer means long lonely hours, sometimes in the middle of nowhere, sitting in a particular spot just waiting.  There are very few times that you can just pull up in your vehicle, get out with your camera, and capture that breathtaking photo that you would be proud to hang on your wall.  Usually the best time to photograph landscapes is at sunrise and sunset.  That time when the light is low in the sky and raking across the scene, adding drama and contrast.  Those are the times when most people are either still asleep in their bed, or eating dinner, settling in to their easy chair to turn on their favorite program.

In the photograph that I took above, I went to this place every evening for a week, waiting on good light. I GPS’d the location so that I could return to the exact spot.   I was worried that the flowers would be spent and I wouldn’t be able to capture the scene before they were gone.  When I took this photograph, the flowers were at their peak and I was able to capture them in all their glory with the beautiful colorful sky and great light on the mountain peaks.  After seven nights of religiously returning, I was finally content and was able to concentrate on the next image that was somewhere out there, ready to be captured.

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