Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia
Photography is about storytelling – told without the inconvenience of words.
A few years ago, I purchased an inexpensive digital camera to document a family trip. I confess that I gave the camera very little thought; in fact, I left the instructions at home, deciding to take the “point and click” approach. I would never consider embracing the title of photographer. That designation was left to those who carried tripods and huge cameras with impressively long lenses. While I admired the tenacity and dedication of shutterbugs hauling heavy photography gear, I considered the apparatus an impediment to any adventure that I planned to undertake.
Sailing on the Mar II
And then something happened along the way. I heard the story. Despite my haphazard approach to taking photography, with every shot I captured a moment in time that would never be repeated. And therein lies the mystery; for photos allow us a second look, a recollection of an emotional response, a reminder that we have lived on this earth.
Photos bring the narrative of the moment, insulated from the noise of the present. With a simple click, we stop time.
“These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago… I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.”
Ansel Adams
