A suiting image, I guess.
This morning, I looked at my schedule and saw three things. I thought, “Oh, not so bad for Friday of Homecoming!”
By 1pm I had had 4 shoots and only one of the original 3 had been marked off the list. I write this at 10pm, still with one left to go.
But its a fitting image for my last day officially working for the university’s Public Relations office.
My photo of the day is unrelated to anything I was shooting. It is not even of a student. But this image embodies almost everything I love about photography.
In a single frame, this does well to convey…
…the human condition: the way life really is. What it means to be human.
I can shoot photographs of happy people laughing and make the university look like a nice place to be… people teaching and lecturing behind podiums and in classrooms… sporting events out to entertain a crowd and athletes trying to beat the other guy and get more arbitrary numbers in a history book… portraits and group photos until I’m blue in the face.
The quiet of a coffee, a lone man sitting in the soft morning light, a newspaper in one hand, his head in the other…
All of these things are human, of course. But its this where I see the image happen, the world slows down a little bit, the tool becomes an extension of myself… I make one frame. Not 1600 photos of a football game, not 80 portraits of the Board of Trustees, not something posed out in the quad and massaged and manipulated to become a “metaphor”…
…just one frame. One frame of a human.
I love human.
Stay tuned,
-noah.d
