I was looking for some sense of photojournalist responsibility for the images they created while covering stories. How did they chose to compose the images; from what perspective, on and on. As a photographer I knew that I intuitively selected the angles and perspectives, the depth of field in a shooting situation in order to reproduce the image, and hopefully, the feeling I was experiencing as I captured an image. I was trying to tell the story I saw. This very admission removes any sense of objectivity from the image making and ties the reproduced image to the photographer and their discourse.

I strongly feel that this kind of subjective ascription of photographers feelings and discourse enters ever y photographic image. The photographers feelings and relationship to the subject is reflected in the finished image.
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I'm finding the business of photography full of relationships. I really love the feelings I have when I'm shooting weddings. Portrait photography feels different; it's much more intimately intrusive. When I shoot events sometimes I feel invisible. I've just now decided to explore these feelings of relationship in that they seem to arise spontaneously and frame the quality of the photographic engagement. It's difficult to write and reflect on these feelings in that I have to link the people, experiences of fleeting moments, and image outcomes. Somehow  there's a link, an intuitive spark, that emerges during a shoot and tends to power the artistic construction of the situation.
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