it’s just a tool

I created and posted this quite some time ago over on Flickr but just recently thought to post it here...

When I first posted this it was to make a bit of a personal statement about cameras. I had someone asking about one of my photographs, he was very impressed with the shot, the lighting, etc, etc., and he went on to say he figured I must have been using a pretty fancy camera. He was surprised when I told him the specific shot he was referring to was taken with a Kodak digital point and shoot! Which brings me to my statement – it has always been my belief that it is the photographer and not the camera that makes a photograph! This photo edit I’ve created is my visual interpretation of that... the camera is only an extension of your own eye... it's just a tool! As a paint brush is a tool in the hands of an artist, or a scalpel in the hands of a doctor... the tool doesn’t make you good at what you do, it only enables you to do what you do!

photo © Julian ~ A View from Here
Image editing by Julian ~ Luckham Creative

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