A bad answer
This shot of the caretaker’s shack was taken in the same cemetery as yesterday’s photo.
I took several pictures of this simple cinderblock structure. “Why are you taking a picture of that?” one of the day’s companions asked. It just felt like something I needed to shoot. I liked the texture of the walls and the shallow slope of the roof. I liked the way that one side or the other seemed to have been built at a different time. I liked the contrast between its straight walls and the every-which-way angles of the headstones. Maybe I felt sorry for it, the homely building squatting in the middle of the cemetery,overlooked and ignored. But when I was asked the question, I wasn’t able to articulate any of that. All I could say was, “I just like it.”
Old Independence Cemetery
Independence, Texas
photographed 3.1.2014
Posted on March 11, 2014, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, cemetery, independence texas, melinda green harvey, monochrome, old independence cemetery, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.
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An imperfect reflection, so human, I like it too.
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Thanks, John. Maybe the person who asked me the question saw this post, and understands why I liked the building. Picture, 1000 words, and all that….
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I like it, too.
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Thanks, Ken.
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The fact you like it is reason enough.
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You’re right – I was just hoping I could be just a little more articulate!
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‘I just like it’ sums it up. It reminds meof George Mallory who, when he was asked why he wanted to climb Everest, said: ‘because it’s there’. Very often it is hard to articulate exactly what it is that draws us into an image.
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The thing is, I think, that another photographer would have understood “I just like it.” (And probably wouldn’t even have asked the question in the first place.)
Maybe in the future, the best thing to do is to give the questioner my website address and tell them to wait for the photo – and then they’ll understand!
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Maybe you need to take walks with photographers.
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That’s a good idea – especially if I could find the kind of photographers who understood why I shoot stuff like this. (This same person always says, “Why don’t you have any PEOPLE in your pictures?” Hopeless, he is.)
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