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Paul Beiser's avatar

Thanks for that book recommendation - on my Amazon list now, and love your eye/composition here.

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

Aw, thanks! I'm not much of a photographer so keep it to these "walking compositions" (migrated over from when I left Instagram in September).

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Paul Beiser's avatar

ah.. I love this and it is so true! --- Photography is not about photography. It’s about everything else.

-friend of Jay Maisel, in “It’s not about the F Stop”

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

I literally never thought of that. I think I might need to walk with it, what a huge idea! Obvious to anyone else, probably. I've just never been very visual-minded. (That book also sounds interesting.)

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Paul Beiser's avatar

There is another saying around "The lens looks both ways" :-). When people want to know about photography/taking pictures, I love to point them to Jay's books and works because Jay was about feeling and emotion and communicating it (and he's funny as all get out :-). He doesn't talk about all of the technical mumbo jumbo because that is not as important as feeling.

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

That sounds incredible (as does Jay). Reminds me of something Alexis Bonogofsky said in a podcast interview about how she approaches her photography. I can't remember what it was, even enough to paraphrase, but you might like her work: https://bonogofsky.smugmug.com. (I love the way she captures the *feeling* of Eastern Montana, not just the scenery, which I suppose is another way of saying what you're saying.)

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Paul Beiser's avatar

Thanks so much Antonia! I look forward to visiting her images. Yes, capturing the feeling through her own vision/feelings and what story she is telling. I can't wait to see her work (headed there now!). tnx!

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Chris La Tray's avatar

We are missing too much, Nia. At least I am and I am trying to rectify that. But oh, do I recognize that sense of love just seeming to come up out of the ground and all through me. I have felt it many times; on the riverbank, in a grove of cedars I regularly visit, in wide open spaces ... yes. Thank you for this.

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

I feel like receiving that feeling is what we’re meant to be doing with life between survival and caretaking.

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Greg Davis's avatar

Thank you for the book suggestion, Antonia!

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

I loved it 😊

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