Make It Your Own
I always tell my classes if you feel the need to take images of things that everyone else has photographed, you have to make it your own. If you’ve seen the shot over and over again, you have got to try to break new ground in your image.
Sometimes this is the result of finding a unique point of view (where).
Sometimes it’s the measure of a different time to shoot (when).
It can possibly be a combination of the two.
Or, it may be some other new way of looking at it that nobody has thought of...yet.
Or, in my case, it was just dumb luck mixed with perseverance that got me the image of the woman looking back at me from the Statue of Liberty.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
However you do it, try in all your work to distinguish ...
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