Snapshot Attempt | February 2009 | Copyright 2009
03/01/2009
So often, when people show me pictures they have taken, it’s with the disclaimer, “Oh, these aren’t very good.” As if, because I have honed my skills as a photographer, I won’t enjoy seeing those photos of your baby, your mom, or a favorite beach from your last vacation.
Snapshots are one of the reasons I was drawn to photography in the first place. I always loved taking photos of my friends, with my friends. How flippantly I used that on-camera flash to stop us starkly in time - out at a party, hanging in the park. We’d get our pictures back from the one-hour lab and laugh and laugh at how drunk you were, and what was up with my hair?
Being able to simply take a snapshot is one of those abilities that somehow gets lost in the perfectionism of being a photographer. We photographic types think too much about the shot and the light and the framing. So I am counting on you to keep taking those photos of us at the lake, at the reunion. So one day we can look back and laugh. And laugh. And laugh.
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