{"id":1749,"date":"2010-11-07T06:28:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T11:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sipotd.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/07\/1172010-in-the-frame-now-happy-sunday\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T06:28:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T11:28:20","slug":"1172010-in-the-frame-now-happy-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=1749","title":{"rendered":"11\/7\/2010: in the frame now, happy Sunday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke this Sunday morning from a dream of worship\u2026that in itself is odd\u2026though I do have a few of those dreams each year, and I suppose Sunday morning is appropriate for one\u2026but before I was fully awake this post formed, and now, up and at the computer, all I have to do is build what I saw. <\/p>\n

At my best as a photographer I am only a frame and an instant. <\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

I am a frame. All I do is point the frame of the camera\u2019s rectangular view at the world. Today I use the zoom on the camera to  change the size of the frame\u2026make it bigger and more inclusive, more grand\u2026or smaller and more particular, more intimate. I can move in close for a true macro of lichen, or add magnification by shooting through a spotting scope for portraits of sparrows. I can zoom out to wide-angle for the sunrise. I can even stitch frames together into the larger frame of a panorama. But whatever I do, it is still a frame\u2026a little rectangle imposed on reality. The frame says \u201cThis is what I see. Look!\u201d I am a frame.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

I am an instant. I control when I push the shutter button. I choose the instant, and it is only an instant\u2026a fraction of a second, when the camera records, for better or worse, whatever is in the frame. Even if I shoot a burst of images, as I often do when digiscoping birds, I still have to pick the one instant out of all those instants that I want to show the world. The instant says \u201cThis is what I see now<\/em>. Look\u201d I am an instant.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

I do not fill the frame, I can only point it. I do not create the instant. I can only choose it. But in those two choices is all the power of photography. <\/p>\n

The rest is just technique.<\/p>\n

This is what I see now. Look!<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t of course, know what you see when you look at one of my photographs. I can hope that if I have done my job, you will see something that captures your attention\u2026maybe even something that stirs your soul, that moves within you and touches places that need touching. At best, looking at what I see might open your eyes to something you would not otherwise have seen. It might change the way you see the world. That is the power of photography at its best. <\/p>\n

I took pictures for a long time before I knew what I was looking for\u2026what fills my frames and draws me to the instants I choose. Interestingly enough, the actual photographs did not change much, if at all. One day I knew why<\/em> as well as what and when. <\/p>\n

And that brings us full circle. As I have said, I am sure, on more than one Sunday in the past, my why<\/em> is worship. What fills my frame in the ever-changing now is always some aspect of the beauty\u2026the awe-full beauty, the intimate splendor, the wonderful power, the amazing compassion\u2026of the Creator God displayed in the creation. Every picture is a celebration of that in God and that in me that brings the world to being through love. I frame those instants, from macro to panorama, when I am most aware of God. That is worship. That is my why<\/em>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

So, this is what I see, now. Look.<\/p>\n

Share this:<\/h3>