The Best Part Of Photography

I do not care if my photos will later be judged as one of those artistic products or not, professional or just amateur. I take shots without any burdens. I take shots merely to enrich the vocabularies of my visual language.

I always record any new “words” that I found using my camera. Hence, every moment is always meaningful. Later, I digest and interpret the collected images from my shots, to reveal any “plausible” characters and meanings that are still “encrypted” in those images. Thus, I interact with the characters in my photos indirectly – when they have been captured in the images. I use images to make jokes.

I share ideas, experiences and knowledge. I express greetings, loves and praise God. I make satires and critiques, or even express angers and condemnations with the images. Through Analogies and Metaphors I use photographs – the digital ones or their alteration products – as personal media to visualize anything I want to express; from emotional feelings to rational opinions and from simple stories to complex issues.

Thus, photographs are visual language to communicate. I mostly talk through photographs using analogies and metaphors. It is like playing shadow-puppets. For instance, in one of my photos, I use letter “O” pattern of two bales of straw to make an analogy about oxygen or O2, and then use the chemical fate of O2 as a metaphor to illustrate the destiny of a couple of lovers who are not always together in this life. In another photo, in order to visualize the faith of a lover, I use a metaphor of a seat in a park, which will always be there waiting for her spouse faithfully, no matter how hot the sunlight and how cold the snow strikes her.

Freedom to Shoot The advantage I gain from using analogies and metaphors is “freedom” when shooting. I snap pictures without any concepts and preparations before. I take pictures without any defined targets. No specific “isms” or rules restrict me. I do not care about categories and styles that dominate my photos, since I consider such diversity as dialectical variability in my visual language. In some cases, what have been recorded in the original image are enough to visualize what I want to express. But, sometimes I have to make accentuation on particular elements of an image or even to combine some elements from different images through digital manipulation beforehand.

Ultimate Responses Ultimately, the best part of photography is to know others’ responses – what people say about my photos, not only how they see the visible parts, but also how they perceive the hidden messages inside. When I am at home, my kids and wife are my first respondents, before I share my photos with others.
This really creates entertaining interactions that could bond me to stick with this photography world.

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