Yesterday, I watched a show celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who. The time travel story included the idea of freezing a moment in time, like a painting. I, of course, related this to taking a photograph with a camera.
A friend of mine recently commented, jokingly I'm sure, that I had gotten lucky taking a particular shot. At first, I was a little aggravated by this statement, but after thinking about it, he was right.
Unless we have a time machine and know what the future will look like, we all get lucky when we capture the moment in a photo. The best photographers in the world get lucky by being in the right place at precisely the right time, but make no mistake, they get lucky.
Photography can be a very technical profession and one can get into f stops and focal length and so forth, but no one can control the future and what is going to happen next. And maybe that is what makes photography such an adventure, the unknown, becoming frozen in time, like a painting.
Or,we may all just be a bunch of control freaks...
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