Pygmalion, originally uploaded by PeterDuke.
I need to be mused.
There needs to be some non-verbal communication that says “that’s it”.
Having a good idea of what ‘it’ is, before you pick up the camera, seems to resonate with me, so I try to form an opinion about the thing I am shooting.
The opinion can be influenced by verbal, non-verbal, perception and memory, but at at the decisive moment, those things must come together.
In this way I think that a good photographer is probably more like a musical conductor, playing a score, than a stealing a moment.
What makes you push the button?
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