17 May Then and Now

I have this album that I shot and put together in 1978. I was 8 years old. When I look through the pictures I feel as though I remember every moment of that family trip to Yellowstone National Park. But I am not sure if I truly remember or if the pictures themselves create the memories. Thirty years later I revisited the park on a shoot for Sunset magazine. At some point following my return I pulled out my 1st album. There was something about the way I used the camera when I was 8 that I appreciated all of these years later. Something that came naturally. I believe it is imperfection. At 8 you don’t care if your horizons are crooked, if your exposure is off, if the time of day is right or about the rule of thirds. You simply point the camera because you like it. My goal now is to unlearn so much of what I have been taught, or been told about photography. Knowledge, politics, responsibility, your editors, it all plays a part in the way in which you approach your subjects. But when you are 8 none of this exists. One similarity that I do recognize between then and now, is that the appreciation I shared for open space when I was 8, still exists in me today. – brown

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