It is however also a time for reflection and appreciation.
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| All I want for Christmas |
last year at
Christmas we received the greatest gift of all - the gift of life - in the shape
of our first son.
While he may not have been delivered by Santa, but rather by
my wonderful better half Christina, becoming a parent and in my case a Dad is
certainly a gift of love, responsibility, and a continuous lesson in patience
and self-control :)
From a photographic
point of view, I have experienced a new and refined or perhaps intensified set
of emotions related to images, both my own and the images of others.
My photography has
always worked the best when a deep emotional connection between me and the
subject matter existed.
My countless
Greenland Images are a perfect example of images becoming successful thanks to
a deep connection between subject matter and photographer, translating to
stronger images.
Over the last year I have experienced a feeling towards
the subject that completely force out any technical, compositional or otherwise
subjective quality in an image, where no matter how objectively unsuccessful an
image it may be, my son being in it makes it valuable by different set of standards. I
know it from other people I love, but not as intense in raw emotion as with my
son.
A valuable lesson, both as a Dad, a human being and a photographer.
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| By the Christmas Tree |
Looking back at two of my favourite Christmas images from last year, they crystallise some of the unexplainable and magical feelings that now forever is tied to Christmas for me.
Technically
imperfect and lacking, but emotionally they strike something so deep in me it
really do not matter. Enforcing Christmas as a time where love, compassion and
family is all that matters.
All left is to wish
you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas :)
/Thomas
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