Thanks to Robbie Shone for sending this photo of me along. I suspect that most other photographer are like me. I have few photographs of myself, and virtually none of me working. The reason is obvious, the photographer is always behind the camera. In the case of my cave work, photos are even rarer because almost everything underground must be lit and after making the real pictures, I don't really have the energy to set up an 'on assignment' picture.
Rob got this image by using the exposure from the picture I was shooting and a flash attached to his camera.I really think that a photographer's pictures need to stand on their own. You shouldn't need to see me making a photo to appreciate it (see the photo I was shooting here). How hard or dangerous something was to shoot is not important to the audience. If the picture doesn't say 'hard' or 'dangerous' then it fails...
But, personally it sure is nice to have the pictures to help remind me of what it was like to do the shooting. Take the photo below.
Without a photo of me shooting this picture it could have slipped my mind that I was hanging from a tree, 150 feet over a roaring waterfall when I shot it.
Ok, well maybe I'd have remembered that without the photo below.
-Stephen Alvarez
congratulations stephen, these photos are amazing (and that cave is HUGE!!)
Posted by: will | March 01, 2010 at 01:50 PM