Photo, space and beyond

# 3063

A friend trveling in Banff send me a photogrpsh of a mountin and it prompted me to think about the difference between a photo and being present in the same spot.

The photo is attractive, but being present at that spot would be a different kind of experience that a photograph cannot capture. If we were present, we would feel the air, the temperature, the ground, the presence of other animals, but more powerfully we would feel the space. The photograph cannot do that there is something about that feeling the space which akes us into a different kind of mentality that we usually avoid, taking the photograph to be sufficient for capturing our experience. The photo materializes, objectifies and limits our exposure . What is left out is probably what is left out of most of our experience as we submit ourselves to the materialist sufficiency of experience.