What is photography

                                  Steve McCurry Steve McCurry, was born on April 23, 1950, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He is a world-renowned American photographer, known for capturing the pure horrid that war causes. But I will be talking about his animal photos and how I feel when I see them.                                                                             Near Bakhmut, Ukraine, 2023                       When I saw this photo for the first time it really hit a soft spot for me. It reminded me of my grandma and how much joy she gets when she sees my dog. So seeing this elderly l...

                 What photography means to me   I've never really given that a thought. I've always seen photography as capturing a moment, saving memories to lock back on in the future but it's far more. It gives people jobs, it allows people to express their creativity, it allows the police to help people in danger and it does many more things that I never considered until recently.  I was tasked with reading "Photography Changes Everything", by Marvin Heiferman, and in the essay he talks about six distinct categories that photography changes. One that really stuck with me was the "Photography changes what we see", it talks about how photographs allow us to see things that the naked eye can't see. I didn't really think about that until I read that part because it reminded me of what I was able to see the northern lights in PA back in October. I could barely see them with my eye but once I took a picture of them with my p...