I feel better. This weekend after walking through sawdust and trying to avoid hundreds of people eating corn on the cob and greasy foods at the Del Mar County Fair I walked into an air conditioned, quiet exhibit of Art and Photography.
I like art, but I especially like GOOD photography (bad photography doesn't do anything for me. I see bad photography every time I look at my own photos) because of the stories they tell, the emotions they evoke, the point of view and the beauty of the world they can show. I find myself staring of photos going..."Wow, I've never looked at that thing that way before"; or "That's beautiful, I didn't know it could be that beautiful"; or "I want to know more about that story."
Contests are great because there's a hodge podge of all kinds of photography. You get photojournalism but you also get pictures of flowers or architecture. It was great looking at the blue ribbons all the way down to the honorable mentions and also a few that didn't win any prizes.
It has renewed my sense of the beauty of the world and the beauty within humanity. Both God made and man made. Because how can you create and see such great, interesting, and aesthetically pleasing work unless there's beauty within you too right?
A great website is www.photo.net. It used to be my home page but blogger took its spot.
Now, if only I could figure out how to take the red out of the retinas on most of my own photos. *sigh*
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