Pete Running into the Light
by Gerald Grow
Title
Pete Running into the Light
Artist
Gerald Grow
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
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In the beginning of my experiments with a moving camera, I bought a used Canon A630 and set out to see what I could persuade it to do.
This camera was slow. The focus was erratic. Its shutter had an unpre- dictable delay, so you never knew quite when it would click. Its small lens required long exposures that caused many pictures to smear with motion.
I loved it.
I took thousands of pictures, nearly all of them bad. I shot without a plan, on impulse, on instinct, by intuition. I took a picture of anything that asked me to.
I took pictures from moving cars, behind furniture, over my head, through the windows of abandoned buildings. I made formal portraits of wilted flowers. I set the camera on a timer and lowered it into a drain to shoot a stormwater river underground.
While walking three dogs on their leashes twice a day, I freed one hand to take dozens of pictures of our exuberant English setter, Pete.
Photographing Pete taught me to move fast, to anticipate, to open to the scene, to find light, to be ready, to take chances, to experiment, to wait, to be surprised, and to take a picture before I had a chance to think about it.
So, much of what I know about photography I learned from dogs.
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August 18th, 2019
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