The mid-morning phone conversation began with “Goodness it’s a beautiful day! Are you getting outside to enjoy the delightful weather?”
Having sat at the computer far too long that particular morning, I decided to make a quick afternoon visit to a near-by park. The fall color was at its peak and rain was in the forecast that night. I knew from experience that a hard rain would quickly impact the splendor of the leaf color.

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A passerby stopped me while I was photographing and asked ‘If I was getting some good pictures.’
How many times do we photographers get asked that question? The definition of ‘good pictures’ is so subjective.

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My response was, “I am trying to use my camera to paint images.”

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That blew her mind! She looked at me with a bewildered expression or perhaps even a trace of disbelief.

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“We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.”
— Beaumont Newhall

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“Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.”
— Edward Weston
Contributed by Sue Henry