Bernice Abbot once said about photography that color gets in the way. The longer I work in photography the truer that statement becomes for me.
I'm periodically seduced by color, but more often than not color gets in the way of my seeing. I'm distracted by color and I miss the essence of a scene. The only color photography I make that I feel are successful are those in which color itself is the subject.
My natural tendency is to see through the color to find the substance of a thing. To me values of gray are more apparent than hues of color.
Photo: ©2011 David W Sumner
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