I am an inspired thief.

I have noticed, in my study of languages abroad, that people have many different ways to say the same thing.

I know it’s pretty obvious, but there is one thing in particular that I find interesting within the English —->German/Dutch/French (and others) exchange. It is the difference between two ways you can look at creating forms of art.

In English we always say “I am going to go take photos” or “Will you take a picture for us?” But in Germany you would say “I make pictures” or “Will you make this picture of us?”

At first I thought this sounded utterly ridiculous, because of the way it sounded. But as this thought kept on popping up in my brain I started to see the genius of it. It is all in the way you think about what you are doing.

So I ask myself, as a photographer am I just taking things from the world around me so I can have them, or am I being inspired enough by the world around me to want to make something from it.

I prefer to think that I am doing the latter, but the different ways your language makes you think about things really dictates the way you think about the world.

Maybe we could take it as far as saying… are we trying to make the world a better place, or take the world to a better place? Just a parallelism to think about.

For now, as my life motto is “create lovliness” I shall venture into this European world where I make pictures instead of taking them and see how this changes my view.

Miss Mykell

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