There are some photographs you remember, there are others you do not remember. I like to think the photographs you don’t remember are the best ones because they come from a place free of thought, planning and rationality. This is the place we all try to get to when we are out there in the world camera in hand. These photographs just happen and when we find them in our LightRoom catalogs we are happy because we have come upon something of great value.
I have mentioned this before, but I am bringing this up again because it is an observation we all have made and I am experiencing this again as I dig back through stacks of old contact sheets (remember those?) in search of images for the first part of the “Fifty Years of Photography” Project. There are images I see reminding me of the places I’ve been and the people I have known and then there are the images that, for all I know, may have been made by someone else.
And before you ask, the photographs I don’t remember are sometimes much better than the ones I do remember making.
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