The world does not exist, beyond the edge of the frame.
There is only this place. This time. These lines, of my choosing.
Why does there need to be anything else? Throw your worries away. Shrug off the burdens that are carried on your shoulders. Within this frame, they don’t exist.
There is only this place. This time. These lines, of my choosing.
With this month’s Photo-Heart Connection, I’ve realized that one of the personal themes I’ve been exploring the last couple of months is my role as a photographer. How I, as a photographer, can see and shape the world around me. How I have a choice. It started with exploring the role of the photographer in the creation of a photograph, then moved on to my discoveries about myself as a photographer, then through my personal journey as an artist, and now today’s Photo-Heart Connection. All have been leading to me to this place of deeper understanding about myself as a photographer and an artist: Everything is of my choosing, from picking up the camera in the first place to presenting it here. It is incredibly powerful to realize the control being a photographer grants me! When there are things outside my control, I still have this ability to gather up pieces of the world, completely of my choosing.
What does your Photo-Heart Connection have to tell you this month? Share it with us here.
Such a great connection Kat…yes, that is how I felt about a photo I did of myself. I was able to tell only the truths I wanted people to see. The process of photographing and then editing do when I think about give us so much control when others things in this world simply do not. That’s a good feeling!
Oooh, cool thoughts. Way cool. Controlling the uncontrollable, or finding control when everything is out of control. Hmmmm. Not to mention the power of a crop or framing or cloning or……
phew. Way cool.
Love this image. Beautiful composition. All those undisturbed lines of sand. One this I like about the beach (don’t know if this is seaside or desert), is that the sands are wiped clean with each high tide, only to be repatterned uniquely as the water receeds-patterns of nature or of human or animals.
You always get me thinking Kat.
Thanks for the opportunity to connect to my own heart as well.
That shot is gorgeous, like a beautiful mirage. Made me stop and take a breath. Also love your thoughts on control especially gathering up bits of the world that are of our own choosing.
Beautiful image! Interesting thoughts, too: with our cameras, we really can choose how we present our life, our world, our self.
What a great revelation. I’m posting mine tomorrow.
Rinda
I’ve never thought of it in this way, but your thoughts on controlling the world through your lens made me realize how much I do that myself. Now if I could only figure out how to make the “reality” I show to others become the “reality” I live in — wouldn’t that be great! You’ve given me food for thought, as always. Thanks, Kat!
Gorgeous post Kat. I love what you are saying. I love the feeling of making a picture that I like, jut because I can and then, yes the power of having it to do with as I like, because I can is amazing but until I read you, I don’t think I ever truly think about what I am doing. I just love doing it. And, I really like this practice of looking back through the months photos. I suppose it gives words to my feelings, I don’t know, I just love doing this.
Your image is so striking and I love your personal interpretation of it. “Throw your worries away, shrug off the burdens” –that’s what I love about photography. We can step away from all that and be in a special creative space. What a wonderful gift!
Oh, yes, it is all about how we choose and frame our lives. Very good food for thought, Kat.
Wow, stunning, stunning photo Kat!
I love this. It’s such an interesting shot – I feel like it would take a long time to explore, understand, take it the space that you captured here. And my shot this month is my photo heart connection for much the same reason – it captures a moment, for me, when I was wholly in it. Everything but that moment had faded away. Thanks so much for hosting {and sorry I had to link up twice…I accidentally deleted my post – eek!}
Yesterday I had not time to comment but I have seen that photography is changing me in a very deep level… maybe not as an artist or as a photographer (I still find that these words are too big for me) but as a person. I had started a healing journey before I discovered photography, but it has made that journey deeper and much more appealing… I am fascinated by the whole process
Amazing photos!
I like this idea of photography as an art of choices. That we control the world we want to depict.
This is beautiful, Kat! The waves of sand almost look like rings of wood on a tree … Fully intentional. Fully your view of the world! I’ll have to sit with that idea for a while … Thanks for putting it out there.
You always give me much to think about. I like the idea of controlling this small part of my life. Of adding or taking away or changing things in the frame until I have just what I want. Same with life. I can add or take away or change things and just be me.