Writing about yourself and who you think you are, is probably one of the more difficult task we will perform in life. My job once sent me to a Dale Carnegie week long class. There was a session where you interviewed 5 coworkers, which were at your table and which you did not know. The goal was to learn a little about them. Then in the next session you had to describe them in 5 sentences, each person on a separate 3x5 card and write their name at the top of the card. Since we each interviewed 5 people, each person had 5 cards written about them. The following session a person was picked and one by one, everybody that interviewed that person read their cards out loud to this person. This continued until everyone had their cards read to them. Once this task was completed, we gave each person the card we had written about them. This exercised proved to be very accurate. The same things were being said about the person over and over again. Only by different people. There would be at least 3 or 4 identical sentences about a person. I was amazed at the perception we give about ourselves to other people.
All five people who interviewed me said the exact same thing in all five sentences, only in different order.
1. I was a good communicator
2. I was highly educated.
3. I was highly technical and logical.
4. I was community oriented.
5. I loved Photography
Imagine my surprise to find out who I was and how I am perceived. The one point I did not make in the above paragraph was that before this session began, we had to take a 3x5 card and write down the 5 things we think people perceive about us. No one in the room of more than 40 people had a match to how they are perceived verses how they thought they would be perceived. It was quite a learning experience.
So I could tell you a lot about myself, but it might be wrong.
Favorite Aspect of Photography
I take a lot of photos to just capture the moment. I hope to bring some beauty to some otherwise stale walls and bland computer screens.
I think of Photography as being able to capture just a small piece of the beauty life has to offer, a moment of joy we want to never forget, a moment of sadness we should not forget. I want to be able to bring pieces of a city or landscape to people that otherwise would have never seen it. I think there is Art in Life, on buildings, in a parking lot, in a manufacturing plant, on a normal street corner.
Most of the time I find the Bigger Picture is not the Photo, but a small piece of it can be beautiful. A small piece can be Art. I like Architecture and Historical sites. I love to look at an old building and use my imagination on how it was built, who were the people that labored so hard to bring it to me. What kind of life did they have coming to work everyday to build this magnificent place?
I love old historic churches, knowing our ancestors passed through the same doors I am walking through right now. Kneeling and pray on the same piece of wood I am touching now. Seeing their labor of love and hope still standing today for the world to see.
I like to see people’s faces in photos. It is like taking a small glimpse into their life and sharing the same emotions or sentiment. It a way to connect with people you will never meet. Knowing our life probably is not so different. We each strive to make the world a better place. We each go to work to feed our families and hopefully give them more than we had growing up.
Traveling to other countries, you realize the world is really not so different from one country to another. We all have life struggles, different cultures and different styles of living, even different languages; however, we really are all the same on so many levels.
I think Photography help me realize a lot of those things and I want to share that aspect of Photography with you.
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