11 May
2010
11 May
'10
6:13 p.m.
"To collect photographs is to collect the world. . . . Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood." - Susan Sontag, On Photography. - Kurt P.S. - Astrophotography is a way to extend the senses (in magnitude depth and by spectral frequency) - as the telescope itself does - and to fix the image seen the eyepiece. Much detail can be missed with the eye at the eyepiece, which with a photographic record, can be revisted. By engaging in the discipline and play of taking one's own photographs - which do repeat what professionals have done better - it forces a focused experience and increases one's connection to the object.