Comments on: obsession: life’s little pleasures

By: Josh Davis

Josh Davis — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:16:53 +0000

Do you ever think that maybe it’s not safe to drive, or that you miss alot while driving because you can’t take time to just look over what all you’re passing?

Obsessing over details, macro or micro, helps find hidden beauty.

I still have an image of a tiny scar on a hand from one of the photos you took. It glows bright white in my mind, with the faint texture of skin, tiny lines between tiny pores in a neverending pattern. That one line is the difference. It calls out from perfection and says, “I am more than this.” And it’s true.

Smooth skin is a type of perfection, but so is just a tiny detail here or there to remind your eyes to stop and admire rather than glossing over.

If that makes any sense.

By: Gloria

Gloria — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:10:01 +0000

I love obsessions…mine and others. I’m definitely an obsessive person and flit from one thing to the next from day to day, often returning to the same obsessions time and again. It gives me a focus.

By: psuedosentence@livejournal.com

psuedosentence@livejournal.com — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:38:49 +0000

You don’t know me, but I found you through Crista’s friends list on lj – and I agree completley with what you said here. I am a photographer myself, well, I like to think so and I find the best photographs are the ones that were taken by surprise, where the people in the photo did not know it was happening – it’s like catching a moment in time and freezing it and being able to return to it for a lifetime. And when you first develop those kinds of photographs, you notice things you never realized were there when you took it – and you study it and it’s hard to explain, but absolutley amazing.

Thanks for writing this, it made me smile.