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Peterbilt Copyright the estate of Charles Robert Barnard |
What do you like to photograph? What really interests you? Finding your individuality is an essential part of seeing photographically.
Bob and Jane were lifelong friends of ours. For his birthday one year in the mid-1980s, Bob told Jane he would like to have a camera. I recommended a Canon AE-1.
Bob was a contractor. He never took a class in photography. As far as I know he never even read a photo magazine. He just began photographing the things that interested him as he went about his daily life. By the time of his passing from brain cancer 20 years later he had accumulated a sizable and unique body of work that showed his world as he saw it in his own individual way.You can read more about Bob and see more of his pictures here.
For myself, I enjoy photographing many different things. The old, the abandoned, the beautiful. The strange, the unusual. The off-beat, the quirky. Old stores, old barns, old houses, old churches; signs, abandoned automobiles, fields of flowers, scenes of natural beauty, the play of light on a human face or on the face of the earth.
The way you "see" photographically may be very different from the way I see, even if we photograph the same things. And that's as it should be. I'm not you, and you're not me. Our different circumstances and different life experiences make us who we are and determine how we see our different worlds. Your way of looking at the world will be different from mine and your photographs should show that difference. Your photographs must be yours. They must come from your heart, your way of seeing life and the world.
Signed copies of the new second edition of Backroads and Byways of Georgia
are available. The price is $22.95 plus $3.95 shipping. My PayPal
address is djphoto@vol.com (which is also my email). Or you can mail a check to me at 8943
Wesley Place, Knoxville, TN 37922. Include your address and tell me how
you would like your book inscribed.
Check out the pictures at my online gallery: https://davejenkins.pixels.com/ Looking is free, and you might find something you like.
Photography copyright 2023 The Estate of Charles Robert Barnard. Text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.
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Hey, Dave, we too were close to Jane though don't think we knew Bob. Haven't heard from her in a long time. Hope all are doing well. Waiting to hear back from your email Glenn & Fleta
ReplyDeleteGlenn, I didn't receive your email. Did you send it to djphoto@vol.com?
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