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“Wow! You must have a great camera”. Or ”Wow! They must have a really nice camera”. An exclamation I hear a lot when someone is very impressed with a particular image or a particular image made a sizable impact on them.
This statement, I am sure erks a lot of photographers. It’s like saying to a woodworker that the cabinets he made came out really nice because he had a really nice hammer rather than technique or skill, or telling a chef, “Oh man! That meal was delicious, you have some really nice pots and pans!”
I was driving home a few days ago and I was stopped behind this big ‘ol flat bed truck. All rusty, yellow paint scrapped off from the years of use. It was around 6 o’clock on a Friday. The sun had just begin to dissapear behind the buildings and at this particular stop sign the sun was able to peak around one of them and cast it’s last few rays onto the street infront of me. Here sat that truck.
Inside I could make out the silouhette of a man and his dog. I was floored. This is the moments I look for whenever I am shooting. This massive connection between a man his dog. Here we are, after a long week of work, it’s Friday, sitting in this beat up truck, heading home, sun pouring it’s last light on the world and this guy sits in his truck next to his best friend. Pure, unadulterated friendship.
The reason I bring this up is because I didn’t have my ‘really nice’ camera with me, though I wish I did. All I had was my phone. It’s not the best quality. It’s a bit blurry. Yet, the image still speaks volumes to me.
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by Ty
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