Close your eyes

Close your eyes
Let your thoughts wander
Where do you end up?

 

Time

Time.
One of the few things one can compete with.
It’s there no matter what. You can’t stop it.
Time affects.
Buildings that once stood so perfectly and gloriously, now lie on the ground looking like nothing.
Except an example of time.

Time changes the appearance of objects that once was so important in daily life.
These objects cannot be used anymore.
Becauese time has excluded them from being useful.

Then again, time often makes things beautiful.
Even though it may not be used anymore.
And might not look as it was intended to.
But a new kind of beautiful.

Inspiration

I browsed the dA ThumbShare Forum and found a thread with the title; The Inspiration Behind Your Photography.
Then I started thinking. Inspiration, yes of course. That is reasonable and logic. But. Is it wrong of me to take a photograph, just shoot it with no further thought than the technical stuff and find something in it later?
If I want to express something with my photography, I should have inspiration before I take the picture, right?

I am quite new to photography. My mom bought me my Nikon D50 camera for my confirmation in March 2006. At first I just took pictures with it, because at the time, that was what I wanted to do. I wanted the dSLR for the very common reason; it was a great camera. I didn’t know anything about shutter speed, white balance, iso or any of the technical stuff. I didn’t even bother to read the manual, because I am an impatient person. That is probably a bad thing. Eventually I looked at the landscape pictures I had taken and found that maybe, maybe I could do this better. Maybe I could really dig into this interest and make it a real hobby. At that time I was struggling with finding out a part of myself. I wanted to have something to be interested in. I would watch Extreme Home Makeover with my mom and envy all the children who got a room that suited their interests. I thought; what if they had come to my house? What if they asked me what I was interested in and what kind of room I wanted? What would I answer to that.

I had found photography, and I was happy. Me and my parents were in a bookstore doing the last bits og Christmas shopping and I saw this book. “The Book of Photography” by John Hedgecoe. I told both my parents that I wanted that book, and nice as they are; they bought it for me (as a Christmas gift). I also got a tripod, but that is not important.

Now I’m telling my whole life story, that is just because I like to write this.
Anyway, I read through some of the posts in that thread. It seems everyone get inspiration before they take the picture. Me, I take pictures when I see a possible motive and later when I look at them, I find some meaning to it.

This was taken at the bottom of my driveway, while I was waiting for my mother to come. I took a few pictures, and this is one of very few that turned out good. I did not think very much when I took it, but afterwards I looked at it and began thinking. This could represent life. The choices we have to make and the number of choices we have to choose from.
I got my inspiration only when I studied it.
Is that right?

Okay, that is not the right question to ask. In photography, in my opinion there are no real right and wrong. Well, it depends.
I just see all these people have their inspiration before they take the actual picture, and I wonder if it makes me less…inspired and good that I don’t get it before I study it.