Too often, I feel frustrated when discovering the images that I was the most eager to capture, because of the difference of what I felt when I stopped walking to look through the viewfinder, and what I see on the screen…
I’m not talking about technical aspects, no, in fact, it’s more like if I did not capture the full scene.
In fact, it looks like what photographers see initially is the potential of a scene, not just what it is now, and this subconscious process is creating enough excitement to push us to press the shutter immediately.
Clic, done, it’s in the box…
Well, what’s in the box is indeed only a subset of what it could have been…
It took me years to realize that if I give time to a scene to grow and develop, then maybe, maybe (this may never happen), I may finally have in front of me the full image anticipated by my distorted brain a moment ago…
Boston, 2015
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