Digital cameras are fantastic. So is my iPhone. However, in the right hands it doesn’t matter very much. Grant Hamilton proved this years ago using Polaroid camera. This is No. 23. You can see more at sxseventy.com.
Cameras count very little…
Ansel Adams was correct…
Ansel Adams said, “Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.” It happened to me a few years ago while walking with my wife through the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
Aside from being there during cherry blossom season, I was there when on one was walking on the path!
The Power of a Photograph
Before running for President Abraham Lincoln was relatively unknown. During his election campaign he came to New York City to make a speech at The Cooper Union on February 27, 1860. That was before he was nominated as a presidential candidate. He stopped into Mathew Brady’s portrait studio. This is the portrait that was created that day.
News of Lincoln’s speech was carried by newspapers around the country…with this picture. Lincoln thought that the speech and photo greatly helped him become President of the United States.