What is that indefinable 'something' that gives meaning & perspective to an image? That same 'something' which has the power of translating the language of light to become ideas, emotions, feelings, or stories? I have often wondered what this quality is and accept that we know and recognise its effects when we see it. Finding and using it is the pursuit of all passionate photographers, it can't be bottled, learned, saved, recycled or preserved. We are hunters of light, and we thirst for something which is not achievable and does not exist - the perfect image.

Technically, photography is merely using some kind of device to record the effect of transmitted photons of energy - a small wedge out of the electromagnetic spectrum of radiation. That is the science of it. The art of it is much more than this, and the photographer is the variable that makes the difference. To quote Ernst Haas - "The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE".

Cheers
Ruth