Break Through Moments in Your Photography

CMoore said:

That is a great story.
Those memories, often become Stronger/More Important as we age.
When you are young, your friends, your parents and your parents friends, they are ubiquitous and seem like they will live forever. Then, one day, you realize that is not so.......

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Yes, and a bittersweet rememberance it is.

My breakthrough moment was when I was watching an Ansel Adams documentary and he was quoted as saying something to the effect of photography being the capture of light. Before that, I tried to capture the objects that I saw in front of me and would often be disappointed with my photos. Now, I’m much less disappointed with my photos and much more disappointed with the weather and position of the sun.

Every good print represents a defining moment for me.

This was a special moment for me. Dartmoor is one of my favourite places and I've made many images there over the years. It was a time when I really started to explore how the camera could transform rather than just record, "things for what else they are" as Minor White put it. Also I'd been using medium format for several months by then and improved my printing skills, so I had the technical chops to do justice to my ideas of landscape. I can feel the drizzly mist and smell the forest nearly 25 years later!