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HT2580 - Sometimes a Picture Is Just a Picture, Sometimes Not

In these Here's a Thought comments, I talk a lot about meaning and content and the philosophy behind photography. There is, however, a case to be made for just letting a picture be a picture. It's a matter of trying to find balance in the swinging pendulum between profundity and simple beauty. So much of photography is about capturing beauty and why not? If that's the only content of the photograph, image after image after image, one does eventually feel that the meal is all dessert and a taste of substance would be a welcome relief.

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HT2580 - Sometimes a Picture Is Just a Picture, Sometimes Not

HT2580 - Sometimes a Picture Is Just a Picture, Sometimes Not

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