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What brings you to grab a camera and take a picture? Is it an idea you thought about or a picture the world presented you?\u00a0<\/div>\n
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So much visual imagery surrounds us each day.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little\u00a0overwhelming. \u00a0From\u00a0Instagram feeds filling our screens to\u00a0billboards flashing past our windshield. Magazine ads and\u00a0iPad pop ups. It\u2019s in\u00a0your face 24\/7. A darkened room with nothing but the sound of the\u00a0world rushing by is your only refuge.<\/div>\n
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The inclination to join into the visual\u00a0conversation is compelling. With a camera never far away these days many of us have the tools to capture every idea we have and everything we see. The world is filling with pictures. The dialog it creates interesting, opinionated, and a little daunting.<\/div>\n
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But what is the intent\u00a0when\u00a0you reach for the icon on a phone or the\u00a0release button on a camera? Is it something that\u00a0you saw? Or an idea\u00a0that you have? That is the fork in the photographic road that determines the path your\u00a0picture will take and ultimately what you have to say.<\/div>\n
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One intent is simply found art. Visual\u00a0consumerism really. Pulling up a viewfinder and scanning the world looking for something interesting to take a picture of. Stumbling upon something beautiful and shooting it. Everyone does it. Documenting\u00a0what is laying before us within the frame. It\u2019s one way to shoot, but certainly not the only way.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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What about shooting the idea you have in your mind ?\u00a0 Not the picture you saw on the drive to work.<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s this point of view that the camera can become a real tool or even a weapon. Armed with an idea first, the world looks like a much\u00a0different\u00a0place with a camera in hand. \u00a0The photographer\u00a0overlaying an idea onto the world rather than the world presenting a picture. Premeditation and not simple discovery.<\/div>\n

Having an idea takes photography from simple documentation into the avenues of art and commerce where hours are spent conceptualizing what the picture will be well in advance of picking up the camera. It\u2019s this world where much of my time is spent.<\/p>\n

Mastering both avenues of intent adds to the diversity of your photography and creates a better photographer. My\u00a0challenge is to become accomplished at both. Enjoying\u00a0the\u00a0freedom of\u00a0being an\u00a0unfettered\u00a0visual\u00a0consumer and also being able to walk out the door with an idea firmly planted in my\u00a0mind.\u00a0 Gathering the elements I need to realize it .<\/div>\n
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The next time you shoot. Think of your intent. Explore the\u00a0world down both those roads. Push the\u00a0boundaries of your ideas and see where the camera leads you.<\/div>\n
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