Piclinq: What Motivates Your Photography?
I’ve recently joined Burlingame, CA-headquartered connected photography company Piclinq as CEO.
We are currently building up our design and innovation team, which is pinging the market to ascertain what motivates them with respect to photography.
It is a fascinating journey - people exude the most incredible level of passion in and around photograghy, and what is most fascinating is how multi-faceted this passion can be in its manifestation.
The most interesting and thoughtful response has come from Sydneysider Ben Haylock. I’ve set out his thoughts in full below:
Image: Copyright Ben Haylock.
Randal Leeb-du Toit asked
quick poll: what do you do with your photos
I replied
take them, share them, Flickr them. No retouching as I have zero skills. I collect fine art photos and look at them every day.
That’s simplifying things down to 140 characters or less.
Rand followed up
what motivates each of the 3 actions - take, share, Flickr…
Had to stop and think about that.
Image: Copyright Ben Haylock.
I take to reinforce memories, not to create them. I don’t live the event through the viewfinder, I live in the event with the viewfinder. Kress and Van Leeuwen would probably disagree. Baudrillard would have laughed.
Share.
I love to share the image, and the story that goes with it, with others: usually friends and family. Nearly everyone says that, but it’s not a motivation per se. My motivation to share is to learn more about the art of photography by doing, then sharing, then listening.
Flickr.
Honestly, I have tried many, many image sharing platforms in the last 10+ years. Flickr is the best fit for me. So, what’s the motivation to Flickr? Again, it’s to share and to learn. I have a few snapshots in Lachlan Hardy’s awesome group for all our amateur chef-fests. I put images up so my father, living in a very, very remote location can see his granddaughter’s experiences.
And Flickring is fun. Just honest to goodness eyecandy fun.
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Way to go, Ben.
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