When I’m taking pictures, I’m constantly listening to music. Music is a very important conduit for me, and I think it leads me to a certain space of my own.
This constant space is a state of concentration or a meditative feeling, similar to the feeling I used to experience when I was weight training and lifting high weights with intense concentration. It’s not exactly the same, but it’s very similar to that feeling.
Some people use the word “zoning” to describe it, some say it’s a state of near ecstasy, and there are theories, this and that. but I don’t want to “name” it. because I feel that if I define it, it will become something else.
When I completely shut off what I am feeling from head to toe and concentrate completely on my own senses, I can feel every detail of the grass and trees in front of me, and although I can’t describe it well, I feel as if I am completely “receiving” the place. It’s like I’ve become one with the space. It sounds like a junkie expression. However, I think my photographs are my interpretation of these moments. I know it sounds like I’m saying something very ostentatious, but I actually feel that way. But I guess maybe people who see my photos just have the impression that they are only beautiful. lol
There is another kind of photographic experience, which is like digging up memories. When I see a scene, I sometimes have a moment when I feel, “Oh, I’ve seen this scene, this smell, this light, this feeling somewhere before. It’s not like déjà vu, but it can be a movie, a memory from your childhood, an emotion you felt a long time ago, or a feeling that evokes an event or scenery you actually experienced.
Sometimes I take a picture of it as if I am somehow extracting it beautifully. This can be like reclaiming a photo that is no longer in my possession, or synchronizing it with a scene from a movie I watched a long time ago. That said, I don’t think I’d want to go out of my way to make what’s in front of me sepia-toned. LOL.
Reproducibility is not important to me at all, I think it’s more important to have a photo that reminds me of something. I think it’s more important to make the photo reminiscent.
Well, in any case, there is a process of taking pictures that I enjoy very much.