Wish

What do you wish you could photograph? What do you wish you could have a photograph of? This is a great question to think about. I have always loved seeing old photographs of Milwaukee and how different things looked, especially the places I recognize. I would like to be able to go back to before our city was established, before the concrete and buildings. I would like to photograph the land before it was built upon.

Behind the Camera?

I am definatly better behind the camera than I am in front of it. Its not that I am shy of the camera or afraid of how I look, I just perfer to be the one taking the picture. When me and good friend Dan went backpacking for three days in the Smokey Mountains I took a lot of pictures. Unfortunatly though, I am only in about three or four of the images and Dan is in mostly all of them. He is forging through the mountain river with all his gear, pumping water through the water filter at 6am, checking and packing gear, ect. I was doing all of the same things, but I choose to be behind the camera. I would like to have images of myself doing all of these things, but the memories are in my head, and thats good enough for me. I can still say I was there and I took these picture. So, overall yes, I would rather be behind the camera than in front of it.
Here is one of the few photos that I am actually in.

On Looking...

Heisenberg says, "Looking at it changes it." What does this mean you ask? Well, I think it is different for everyone. Every individual has there own way of looking. One can feel a certain way about an image depending on there own personal experience or feelings. In general, I think that looking provokes the looker to change there opinion or develop a meaning that transcends the thing. People do it with out even realizing it.