In my opinion, each of us instinctively stops when we encounter something unexpected and overlooked. For example, once I had walked about San Francisco, and suddenly I saw this https://pulsepx.com/photo/nSx5vBP67xX?type=brand.
Isn't it like your postbox? Every time I look at this photo, I think about why I made it at that time, and the only answer I find is 'this is a photographer's instinct'.
I relate to your words - "It’s about the moment I decided to stop" - Walking on my own with a camera in hand encourages a mindful focus to look around rather than just look ahead. You see and sense of scene around you that somehow makes you "stop" to capture the moment.
I wonder, sometimes, whether photography styles sit on some sort of spectrum from the Daido Moriyama type at one end (literally point and shoot indiscriminately) to the likes of Gregory Crewdson at the other (where ever aspect of the final image is constructed and controlled) and, if so, is where we sit on that spectrum a choice or an inevitability.
Reminds me a lot of Camera Lucida
Camera as attention prosthesis
Among many other things it is also curiosity that drives me to photograph
In my opinion, each of us instinctively stops when we encounter something unexpected and overlooked. For example, once I had walked about San Francisco, and suddenly I saw this https://pulsepx.com/photo/nSx5vBP67xX?type=brand.
Isn't it like your postbox? Every time I look at this photo, I think about why I made it at that time, and the only answer I find is 'this is a photographer's instinct'.
I relate to your words - "It’s about the moment I decided to stop" - Walking on my own with a camera in hand encourages a mindful focus to look around rather than just look ahead. You see and sense of scene around you that somehow makes you "stop" to capture the moment.
I wonder, sometimes, whether photography styles sit on some sort of spectrum from the Daido Moriyama type at one end (literally point and shoot indiscriminately) to the likes of Gregory Crewdson at the other (where ever aspect of the final image is constructed and controlled) and, if so, is where we sit on that spectrum a choice or an inevitability.