Photographing enough?

We all know the year is 2011. Let us not get confused about the year, or what century we living in, never forget the world we live in.

I love children. I love photographing children, especially the cheeky ones. I love the “uniqness” that magically appears in a photograph. I also prefer the word photograph then the words: picture, image. The cling of the word sounds so, not important and boring. The phrase photograph brings something stronger, it is more important; the person in the photographs will somehow be related to a different era, right?

 

I am strongly against children images on the Internet; really I am kind of against all private pictures. Why do some feel the need of displaying and sharing their private family album/life on the World Wide Web?

Pictures have always been a passion of mine, photographing, developing in the “old school” darkroom, enhancing them to be more glamour’s in Photoshop and I love creating my own photo/scrap book albums. I love photographing children. I can’t decide if I prefer in a studio or outside, but if outside I love the feeling the photographs gets when photographing at sunset. Or 9 o’clock light in the morning.

Yesterday I walked in to Oxfam bookshop in Crouch End- Great bargain bookshop. I stumbled (I love the world stumble) on Marcus Adams. A child photographer, who created a unique record of two generations of the royal children between 1926 and 1956. Mr Adams presented a fresh, natural and vibrant view of the royalty. A massive change from the traditional formal portraiture. 

If someone fancied that type of style I would only recommend photographer Mr Yuval Hen. I think so far he is the only one on the market today that brings that "old"era out in his photographs.Some of them are mixed with sinister, love feeling. You will have to look for yourself to understand.

Looking at today’s typical pictures if children, its often people are hungry for the vintage styles: Lomo ( cross-processing effect), Diana (dreamy effect), classic vignetting. Me, personally I love black and white. I found them more classical to have in a picture frame within a border. Photographs have to have border, my opinion, if not, what’s the point of framing the picture? I do love bang on with colours in photographs, like this one below that I photographed 2 weeks ago.

So it’s 2011, and it will never stay 2011 forever, sadly. So are you photographing your  “lovy”/ “lovies” enough?

Photographs, is captured moment, forever a memory. What better then decorating you home with moments. Moments taking up space to remind you of that “click”. 

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