I hate the actual New Year’s Resolutions thing, but I like setting goals soooo… one of my GOALS for this year is to define my “style” of photography.
I’ve been trying and trying and trying to figure out what style and/or genre of photography interests me most because, even thought it’s not good to limit yourself, it’s also good to find your niche. I think I’ve narrowed it down to two specifications. I would say niche or specialty or whatever, but I still haven’t figured shizz out; I’m just a step or two further along the way.
One thing I know I love concert photography. That will never feel like work to me, I don’t think. I look forward to expanding and honing my skill (skill-if you can call it that yet) in that area.
The second thing I know I want to pursue is the storytelling aspect of photography, be it wedding, urban, artistic or even landscape/nature. Actually, I ran into the following website for “The Storyteller” photographer, Charles Bordner. I guess he’s actually been on Lifetime and is a nationally acclaimed photographer. (You know me and my Lifetime! Dana Delaney, Candice Cameron AND Jane Seymour!? Where can you go wrong? Okay, you can easily go wrong, and I’m happy to say I’m completely kidding. I’ll wait til I’m at least 45 before watching more than 15 minutes of Lifetime at a time. No offense to those of you who enjoy it. It’s just not my thang.)
Okay, I totally tried to find a "Bad Lifetime Movie" picture to insert, but Google came up with this for me instead. I guess they're from some other show on Lifetime. Hey, it got your attention, right?
Back to taking me seriously…Not to say that I necessarily want to FULLY pursue wedding photography, but if I did (and as I travel down this road), I aspire to follow that particular style of wedding photography. (I recommend looking through his galleries. There’s a picture of a little girl standing in front of the wedding cake in the ‘Low Country’ pictures. LOVE it.) He’s found a way to construct simple yet eloquent pictures, in my opinion. Honest and elegant. Professional and classy but far from pretentious.
I love stories. I love thoughts and images and artistry that spark emotion. And I love the idea of putting into pictures what I cannot put into words.
And stuff.
