{"id":946,"date":"2011-12-31T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T04:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=946"},"modified":"2023-01-01T22:02:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T03:02:34","slug":"twelve-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Images"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.\u201d \u2013 Ansel Adams<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (1)<\/p>\n

The end of another year… I suppose that it is natural to reflect back on the past year. In reflecting on my photography Adams’ quote came to mind.<\/p>\n

This got me thinking about editing one’s work and the adage “You are known by the what you show<\/em>  not the what you shoot<\/em>” (2) also came to mind.<\/p>\n

While searching (unsuccessfully) for the source of this adage, I came upon a quote from a travel photographer which is also apropos:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be a trap of the photographer to think that his or her best pictures
\nwere the ones that were hardest to get.\u201d \u2013 Timothy Allen<\/a> (3)<\/p>\n

Thus inspired, I decided to see if I could choose just twelve photos to represent my work for the year. It was not as hard as I thought it might be.<\/p>\n

I make no claims to their “significance” and I am certainly no Ansel Adams.<\/p>\n

Here they are…<\/p>\n

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(1)  Although widely attributed to Adams, I can not find specific source for this quote; maybe it is apocryphal.<\/p>\n

(2) At least I think this is an adage and not a quote attributable to a specific individual.<\/p>\n

(3) See: http:\/\/blog.travellerspoint.com\/90\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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P.S. for the statisticians in the crowd… I made photos on 82 days in 2011 and exposed about 12,000 “frames” total (ain’t digital wonderful… who could have afforded that with film!).  I processed about 1000 of those frames… roughly 8%.  This last number is actually pretty meaningless. I do a lot of “exploratory” shooting just because digital is cheap and I can… I am not intending that every shot I take is a “keeper”.<\/p>\n

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