Photography is not always about technique, measurements, settings, and equipment. A great picture can occur at the end of an old instamatic camera, a cell phone, or an expensive camera. Equipment is not the end all be all of photography. The photographer's eye, that ability to "see" a picture, is most of the foundation of a great photograph, and that eye is not simply the mechanism that sees the subject and shoots it, it is also the heart of the photographer. A great photographer feels the picture at the very instant the eye ventures onto a subject. At times a photographer can feel the subject and have the time to set up equipment, check settings, find the best placement, and snap the picture. At other times the photographer must have camera in hand because feeling the picture may only last for a split second. "BikeTrailBiker" is an example of the later.
While out taking pictures of clouds in a sky filled with storm, this gentleman came by on his bike, bid a good day, and rode off. In an instant the camera came to the eye and...
What makes this a good picture is not the correct camera settings or photo editing software, it is the thoughts that the picture elicits from those that stop and look at the red shirt, ponder the thoughts of the rider, question the path to be taken, or when the last view of the bike disappears into the leaves of the trees ahead. This picture has a present and a future, where the rider is and where he is going, the viewer walks away wondering...
If my picture can make a viewer think about "what happened" then it is a great picture.
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