Safe to say most Konvergence Kids did not drop in from Photo J--we all tend to fall a little short in that category. From the outside I always kind of assumed it was one of those things that someone either gets or they don’t get. The way LaBelle breaks it down, it actually feels…almost…possible to be good at this stuff.
To be honest, anything that requires a certain brand of Zen-esque approach tends to piss me off. I like words. I can move words around until they fit right, use them to describe just about anything. Writing takes a certain kind of ambition and activity that most of us thrive on. Photography feels like, well, hunting. LaBelle really nailed it on the head there. His break down of it in a breezy 44 pages hits it all. With a little practice, maybe, just maybe we can hush the cries of convergence haters everywere. They say to let us cover the mundane, the mediocre, the we-need-to-cover-this-because-there’s-not-enough-big-news, and let the pro photographer and other one dimensionals cover the breaking news where they NEED the shot.
Thank you, David LaBelle, for making it look so easy. I hope you’re right.
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