089 - Street Walking

089 - Street Walking, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
This is another in my cycle of summer road shots - finding pleasure on the way to and from work.

We waste so much time and energy hating the modern world, but I say it is time we learned to appreciate what we have created in spite of its imperfections.

There are two general types of photographer - those who wish to capture everything with the lens and alter nothing to the image thereafter, and those who have no fear of damaging the image after capture - and many people who do both, of course.

Capture is about retaining the past, destroying is about creating a new future. And yet it is the practice of destruction that safeguards our ability to cope with unavoidable changes, while capture eventually destroys what it seeks to protect because change will come.

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