Slow Down

           It's amazin how simply slowing down the shutter speed on my camera i can change the dynamic of the same picture. These are the in camera tricks that separate the photographers from picture takers. Now im not knocking anyone who takes pictures hell i used to be one, but there is a difference.
          
              I have been shooting "with meaning" since 2007 and i am still in the phase where i enjoy just taking a few hours and just trolling the city with my back pack and shooting for my personal enjoyment. Every so often i run into a couple or a lone person just wondering around with their camera trying to get a picture of that perfect sunset. What always amazes me about these encounters is that no one i come across has ever finished that book that comes with the camera and they are shooting in auto mode. Auto mode lol! So they see me standing there with my lens that looks more like it belongs on the sideline of the Super Bowl and they being talking to me. Now you must understand i am a bit apprehensive for the mere fact that under normal circumstances these people would clutch thier purses come in close to thier companions and walk briskly ....but it never fails some how i end up with their $500 piece of equipment for capturing light in my hand changing the settings, so that given the current situations they can capture this spot where we are standing in in the most artistic way possible. Yeah right! So after the mini~lesson session im rushing because im usually running out of light in what is called the golden time of day when the sun's setting, I but i always make it a point to turn and snap a picture of them trying to get their camera back to the setting they had before i changed it. Lmao!   
     
                 All in all I tell that story to say this ...... Sometimes if we just slow down we can catch a little more of the everyday beauty that surrounds us. By simply slowing down the shutter you get my picture vs. your picture.