These are provisional notes from a raw writing session today.
Summary
What other skills are needed for photography: framing, emphasis, sensetivity.
Plus, some examples of how I’ve grown in the last year, photographically.
Offline communities that remain hidden, online communities that stay unfound.
The makeup of a shared singular experience over 20 years ago.
It was re-corking some wine bottles so they would last another 20 years.
And a recent one, searching for the shot in Silver City, NM.
Resonant phrases
It’s not the job of the photo to capture all the scene, it’s to emphasize the one aspect I found most compelling.
If I’m photographing what the [subject] is in my mind, it’s going to be a bad photo.
Make what I see in the viewfinder align with what I see in my mind.
Niche groups kept isolated in distinct valleys by the high algorithmic peaks and passes that don’t obviously connect.
To the outsider, another area of the algorithmic feed is an unknown unknown known, an open mystery if you knew to search for it.
It’s wrong to claim that everyone is online, they are not even when they are.
Learning some secret knowledge helped make the experience singular to him.
Open loops
Tiny experiments to catch more singular experiences.
Recognize niche cultures, offline and on.
Be sensitive for community, whether offline or algorithmically obscured.