...thinking on what makes a good photographer: or what enables one to take great photographs, rather, marks the difference between ordinary and exceptional, is the reality that one inhabits... through the meeting of reality and lens we enable a conversion of imagery--the imagination, the internal, with the tangible--external. I think, most, what I mean by this is that a good photographer is defined by the photographs he or she has the opportunity to capture.. and thus defined by whether or not that person is linked to his or her camera, as one is linked to an arm or a leg. To those who see the camera as an appendage, the creation comes naturally, necessarily. To those who view it as a burden or an extra piece of equipment, defining photographs only emerge when the importance of the photograph outweighs the effort of extracting the camera from its holding place.
For some I fear these are many opportunities sorely missed.
