PJ’s Blog

A comment by a friend got me thinking, and i’d like to share it with you. Basically, she likes photographs that tell a story. She is a videographer and a cinema and comic book fan, so maybe that’s why she likes images to tell a story. One way or the other, it’s obvious that a picture that tells a story may seem stronger than an image that doesn’t. Here is the image she referred to in her comment, it’s an image I quite like from a photographer in Quebec City :

(image by Neonyme )

Now, can an image be interesting without telling a story ? I think it can, but it has to say something, it has to be more than just a mountain, a tree, a nude body, or whatever subject. My photography in general tends to be very technique-oriented, and even more these days, where I am discovering and exploring new techniques. I really appreciate it when someone gives me a comment which goes along the lines of “think, PJ, get off your technical butt and be creative, try to make worthwile images !”…

Usually I go back to making the same technical pictures over and over again, but I sometimes feel that there is a glimmer of hope and that I actually might start doing something creative one day… So Miss Tick, please, by all means, don’t stop bugging me, it might just improve my work…