What does a photographer do? We shoot photos, that's a given. But it's never as simple as pushing a button on a plastic box. There is no Pulitzer Prize mode on my camera. There is no photoshop tool that can make a perfect image. A photographers role is to capture a moment in time.While I was laying down on a log, and looking up at the trees I could see it. All of it. I could see joy and sorrow. Prosperity and poverty. Peace and war. I could see it all in the leaves, clear as day.
If my role is to capture a moment in time, then I have failed in this image. What I had seen under those trees, isn't in this image. No matter though. I don't have to get it on film to know that I seen it. Or to know that what I seen is everything that matters. Perhaps that moment was just for me.
