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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Do you write about your photos? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by chrisdc451@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Hi!

I’m curious about how many of you photographers write about your photos. I’ve got a specific reason for asking this.

Over the last few years my taste in what I photograph has changed quite a bit. I couldn’t find a thread through the images for quite a while, until I pulled a few out from a couple-month span and wrote about them. It was super useful for me, helping me realize what I was getting drawn to, and that in turn helped me focus my work going forward.

I’m curious if any of you write about your work too. Please tell me about it!

And please drop a link to the writing below if it’s public. I’d be down to give it a look.

Cheers!

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[–] FlightOfTheDiscords@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, in a way; I write poetry and often have the same themes in my poems and my photographs. The connection between my words and my photos is artistic, not analytical.

I saw you falling
From grace and from truth;
It's some kind of calling,
Like God gave to Ruth:

To pick up the pieces
Of fragmented love —
Not for myself
Nor no one above,

But to build of them catchers
Of dreams I forgot:
Yours, for the angels;
Mine, for the caught.

I hold your pieces.
The night's black buoy
Holds us afloat
In this infinite void.

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