"You accumulate pictures" - A good time with Joe McNally

[Kolander]

Enjoy Maggie and Pictures Past…. « Joe McNally’s Blog


"One of the best things about being a shooter, and, sorry young photogs, you have to wait for this particular delight –is getting older. Reason being is that you accumulate. Throughout all the travails and disappointments, the blown jobs, the missed calls, the times you zigged when you shoulda zagged, the broken pixels, the random attaboys, the monthly stare down with bills that aren’t getting paid, you receive, occasionally, the sheer unadulterated joy of having a camera in your hands at just the right split second when it all works. Not to get too frikkin’ Catholic about it, but those shards of time when gesture, light, and lens all work in concert with your head and your heart and that click becomes a frame that stirs emotion, creates memory, and provokes reaction–well, that’s like confession and communion all at once"

 

[pgriz]

Kolander, you keep digging up good stuff - thank you!

As for Joe's message. Yeah. Sometimes it all comes together, and unlike a fine wine, you get to look at the picture again. But the moment... that is gone until another one replaces it. No, that's not quite right. The magical moment joins the others on your memory shelf. And the nice thing is, such memories just get better with time.