Chris Becker - Painting with Light
From the website: The actual process of searching for a subject or scene is a significant motivation to why I photograph. It is a journey, a search for a location, a story, and, perhaps, of oneself. My search is constant; there may be inspiration, such as my favorite objects in different settings, or a serendipitous discovery of something I've always looked at but never noticed before. My curiosity fuels the journey. Like a force pulling me, I am lured towards my goal and my prize: a fantastic scene waiting to be exposed. It is at the moment of discovering my subject which I want to photograph that I begin another journey -- creating the exposure itself. I am creating a scene or story with characters using the darkness of night as a canvas and my light source to choose the parts or characters that make up the final story. I, too, being a physical part of the process without being seen, am part of the story.
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