Photographers need to learn how to "see"

Think outside the box!

Too many of us don't think. Everyone wants to take pictures of someone's smiling face; nothing wrong with someone smiling into our lens, but that's what everyone does. Not very creative.

<-- This photograph won the Pulitzer Prize. Why? Because Nat Fein walked around behind Babe Ruth, and made this wonderful picture of Babe from behind. A thousand other photographers took pictures from the front. No one ever heard of these photographers. But Nat Fein walked around behind the Babe, to show us how weak and fragile he was. And only this picture - out of the thousands taken that day - was a great picture. Look at it. It shows Babe Ruth as a sick man in 1948 - not much longer for this world - leaning on his once mighty bat to support himself, weak and hardly able to stand unassisted, just weeks before his death from throat cancer.

The greatest photographers know how to "see" much better than most of us do. You will need to learn to see things that most people never notice - and never even think of. You'll need to learn to "see" like a photographer. You don't have to be a genius, but you do have to train yourself to look at the world from different angles; see things from the top, bottom, and back, instead of just from the front. Work on it; soon you'll be thinking outside the box, too.

NEW! We've just added our "Lovely Young Ladies" Photo galleries (don't worry, more mature women and our men's galleries are coming soon - as well as Landscapes, Travel, and Members' images, shortly)! We'll have a critique for each photo in the near future, but it was all I could do just to edit and upload these lovely lassies at this time. Feel free to contribute your own images, as well as to offer suggestions and critical comments about the images currently in our Galleries. Photo Gallery 1 | 2 | 3

A very personal story about how I learned to "see" the Beauty which surrounds us all....