{"id":269491,"date":"2020-08-28T10:32:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=269491"},"modified":"2020-08-28T11:36:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T15:36:52","slug":"the-photography-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/28\/the-photography-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Photography *EXPERIENCE*"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We must think it ain&#8217;t just about shooting, taking or making photos &#8212; it is the whole *<em>experience<\/em>* of making photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The word &#8216;experience&#8217; is also tied to the word &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/empirical\">empirical<\/a>&#8216; (tied to reality, real life). &#8216;Experience&#8217; comes from the Latin &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/experior#Latin\">experior<\/a><\/em>&#8221; which means &#8220;to test, to try, to attempt, to prove, or to &#8216;put to the test&#8217;). And as you do, you practice and learn and discover a deeper truth about x, y, z.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Empirical<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I find the word &#8217;empirical&#8217; so interesting&#8230; it comes from the Greek &#8216;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/\u00e1\u00bc\u0090\u00ce\u00bc\u00cf\u20ac\u00ce\u00b5\u00ce\u00b9\u00cf\u0081\u00ce\u00af\u00ce\u00b1#Ancient_Greek\">empeiria<\/a><\/em>&#8216; which pertained initially to medicine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A doctor didn&#8217;t have pre-existing knowledge, but he practiced (trial and error) and figured out how to do surgery via his personal experience in the matter. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A trial, an attempt <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To take the notion empirical further &#8212; it comes from &#8216;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/\u00cf\u20ac\u00ce\u00b5\u00e1\u00bf\u2013\u00cf\u0081\u00ce\u00b1#Ancient_Greek\">peira<\/a><\/em>&#8216; which literally means trial, experiment, attempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means in life with photos, words, thoughts and anything .. it is just a trial, an experiment and an attempt! Even more poetic &#8216;peira&#8217; comes from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/per-\">*per-<\/a><\/em>, which means &#8220;to cross, to pass&#8221;. That means through trial and error and actually doing it &#8230; you cross a path of non-knowledge (ignorance) towards knowledge (you learn and you know as you do it!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We must think it ain&#8217;t just about shooting, taking or making photos &#8212; it is the whole *experience* of making photos. 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