don’t waste money light
May 5th, 2010 by Rob Hart
Melissa Lyttle just posted this on Facebook: “if there’s money light, but nothing happens in it did it really exist??”
Even when you’re racing to transmit on deadline you can’t waste money light. Stop for a 1/60th of a second. Snap, recompose, snap. Move closer, snap. Move back. Snap. I was supposed to be sending mediocre (at best) volleyball photos. How quickly those images will be forgotten by me.
I’ve been thinking all day about Rob Mattson’s blog. He’s always been one of my favorite shooters, and now that he’s telling his own stories it’s even more beautiful. A thousand people can make a nice photo of some guy catching a touchdown pass, but no one else can record your own history. If someone likes you enough to be waiting by the door make a photo.
In college we’re all taught to shoot what you love. Then you get a job, a mortgage, responsibilities, office politics, stress. Photos are a way to hold time. Someday it’s all that will be left. So leave something beautiful and important to those that you love.
Moe and Tom sit in the window of Rob Hart's house in Berwyn, IL
Posted in Cats | Comments (2)
May 6th, 2010 at 10:54 am
hey rob, beautiful image and a wonderful post…followed a tweet by luceo images..
May 6th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Rob, gorgeous sentiment, AMAZING photo. I want to buy a print.