Capturing a Feeling

A common misconception is that the job of a photographer is to make some sort of copy of a slice of the world in a slice of time. In fact, the job of a photographer is to use a representation of the world to express a feeling and induce that feeling in the viewer. To this end it is not always necessary to be able to define exactly what it is that creates that feeling as long as you know how to create it.

This photograph of a small flower blowing in the wind conveys a lot of that motion and feeling of bright windiness. It is also one of the first images I have processed using a piece of software that does a better job of turning negative images into positives. It does a better job not because of any measurable specification but because the images converted to positive with it have more "reality" and more "depth".