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Quick Takes: Eddie Soloway - Photographic Adventures

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Ideas fuel Eddie Soloway's photography. Many are out of the box; most are at least slightly askew from the conventional wisdom of picture-taking. Eddie is a skilled photographer as well as a gifted workshop instructor, and we asked him to share some of the ideas that inspire him to create imaginative images. This is the first of a three-part series of Eddie's L&E Quick Takes.

"We're in charge of our own photo adventures," Eddie Soloway says, explaining that these quests don't have to be climbs to the tops of mountains. "Adventure means taking a different path," he says. "It can mean getting down on the ground for a really low angle shot, or photographing not the entire flower but a backlit petal." 

Or it can indicate how we think about taking photographs.

"What I often see on photo tours is a van pull up along the side of the road, people hop out with their tripods already fully extended and the cameras fixed on top. They plant the tripod next to the van, take their pictures and they're off again—and for the rest of the day every photograph is from that perspective."

The side-of-the-road method isn't for him. "I like to tap into the childlike curiosity that pulls me up into the branches of a tree or leads me off the trail. It opens up opportunities for all kinds of new images—and it's a lot of fun."

Eddie sees himself as "a visual detective"—snooping around, observing, always curious, not sure what's going to happen. "If you fall into the adventure zone as a photographer, all kinds of things come up." And pretty soon, he suggests, that attitude becomes part of your repertoire.

So look around. Think: What if...? And: Why not...?

Of course, there's another part to the adventure equation, and that's matching imaging techniques to ideas. Or maybe we should say experimenting with imaging techniques.