非常感慨！看了对 Marc Adamus 的采访，分享两段。

When I go online these days I see so many forums and venues for sharing of photography, and within those I see a dominant percentage of participant seeking recognition for their ‘art’.  In an effort to obtain this, they often look to emulate what is ‘popular’, as is true in so much of life.  While this is fine for a beginner intent on learning, this mentality ultimately leads to conformity, and worse it can diminish experiences in nature greatly in exchange for being in ‘that’ specific spot at that specific time eight times until ‘it’ happened.  That is not art.  Going to a specific location shot by countless others you saw before you went there, and returning eight times to get the shot you want is not art, nor does it speak to any passion for wilderness or adventures therein.  Art is about personal expression, it comes from within and it is unique, above anything else.  What I saw people doing was wanting to hang merely a trophy on their wall, all else be damned, and I realized that I too could and had in some ways become entangled in this way of seeing and it was this that had once again cut the sense of freedom and passion from my life outdoors.  I was again frustrated and stopped taking my camera on many of my trips.
When I look back on my greatest successes as a photographer and artist, the images that moved me most deeply, they are almost exclusively the ones I made where I felt the greatest and deepest connection to the wild power of a place.  They are rarely photographs that were preconceived and they contain no places and/or conditions that I’d ever seen photographed before.   When I look back at those rare times where I have managed to make these images that reach my senses on a deeper, more emotional level, I realize that it was in those times that I had let the place come to me, rather than going to it.  You can’t find anything in nature unless you can let it find you.  It finds you when your mind is open to all possibilities, when you taste its limitlessness, its grandeur and freedom.

所有跟帖： 

• 谢分享！ -一圆半圆- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/29/2013 postreply 20:53:12

• x2 -Lao_shan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/29/2013 postreply 22:12:09

• 高！You can’t find anything in nature unless you can let it find y -nanjing2- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/29/2013 postreply 20:58:55

• 心灵自由的人是幸福的。 -nanjing2- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/29/2013 postreply 21:01:03

• 这句耳熟: Art is about personal expression, it comes from within and -云海飞雨- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/29/2013 postreply 21:08:41

• So true: --史家胡同-- ♂ (604 bytes) () 11/29/2013 postreply 21:14:13

• 不知道为啥， 想起影云来了。。：-） -Suijin- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/29/2013 postreply 21:19:15

• 有道理.. -wiser56- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/29/2013 postreply 21:24:48

• 大师的境界太高了~~ -子夜歌- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/29/2013 postreply 21:38:18

• being popular is important, 他自己不就很popular吗？：）） -lilywxc- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/29/2013 postreply 21:55:30

• 仔细读了，谢谢分享！ 史家昨天推荐的视频讲座Sam Abell也非常好！ -chicago80- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/29/2013 postreply 22:25:07

• 站在台上后，说什么都好。 -山花浪漫- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/29/2013 postreply 23:14:44

• 灵感和激情对创作太重要了。而这些的前提往往是孤独 -北京西城区- ♀ (64 bytes) () 11/29/2013 postreply 23:15:25

• 乌央乌央，呵呵，好词，因该＝一窝风吧😄 -akiller- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/30/2013 postreply 06:56:13

• 百度百科尚未收录词条"乌央"。咋一看以为是某个西藏人的名字。道理俺懂了，就是说成大师者，必先孤其身，独其心， -ivanhuang- ♂ (18 bytes) () 11/30/2013 postreply 09:12:21

• 所以你看大师极少有胖子：））） -北京西城区- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/01/2013 postreply 01:54:46

• 呵呵，北京话，就是people mountain people sea的样子 ：） -北京西城区- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/01/2013 postreply 01:53:39

• 深刻，真正的大师不是跟谁学出来的，应该主要靠激情，灵感，勤奋加自己独特的风格吧。 -夕风- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/30/2013 postreply 07:13:40

• 说到我心里去了!! -阿玉- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/30/2013 postreply 01:46:15

• 仰望 -大龄失足女青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/30/2013 postreply 05:55:23

• 赞 -jzz- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/30/2013 postreply 06:29:34

• 谢谢分享。Love this quote: “Art is about personal expression“ -其无- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/30/2013 postreply 07:00:03

• 很有同感！ -xialibaren- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/30/2013 postreply 09:05:53