Like most working photographers, I have a number of cameras in all formats. Each one offers a different look and approach. If I were to shoot the same subject with each camera, every image would look somewhat different. Like a musical piece, played with a piano, a trumpet, and cello and you will hear three different renditions of the same music.

I started to walk in the mornings, my meager way of keeping in shape but mostly done to gather my thoughts. On one of those days, I spotted this scene as I passed by. I didn’t have my 35 nor medium nor large format with me although I did think of going home to get one. The “purists” were calling.

” The Day the Music Died “

Luckily I didn’t listen and turned to shooting it with my Iphone. It was too good to pass it up and the freedom that the phone gave me caught it just before the trash collector came.

But a thought came to mind. What if I had gone back to pull out my Blad, or 4×5 or even 35 digital…would I have taken the same shot ? Would my approach been the same or  would I have seen this image the same way or maybe not felt it at all ?

Do the tools we use influence how we see?

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