Not nearly so beautiful and clear as many of the images on Flickr, but more like most of our photos...and our lives. It occurs to me that photographers, like writers, do not all fit into the same category. Some are like poets, and scour the world to find images which stand alone on their visual qualities, regardless of meaning. Others are more like journalists, and use photos to document real people, events, and so on. The best ones probably are able to do both, but we (and most people we know) are much more like the journalist...bypassing technology and technique to "get the picture"--like this one of boys selling black market gasoline in Southeast Asia. Flickr simply makes it possible to share one's art...or one's lives, with a wider (and more anonymous) audience.
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