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Hello , 

EvewnEven if there are no people visually recorded in our photograph, there are always at least two people in a photograph.

The first person is the photographer who created the photograph.

The second person is the person viewing the photograph the photographer made.

As the photographers creating the photograph, it's up to us to visually communicate whatever we were experiencing that made us want to make the photograph in the first place. 

That's how we get into the picture.

Should we be concerned about the second person? 

Considering that more than one person will be viewing our photograph, I think this is a fruitless concern.

In other words, it's not helpful to create work based on our desire to have people like our work. 

We shouldn't worry about whether people like our work because not everyone has the same likes and dislikes. 

Some people will appreciate our work, and some people won't. 

C'est la vie. 

I think our primary concern should be in applying all we know about craft to filter our entire experience of what we see through our camera to visually communicate our unique way of seeing and our unique way of expressing what we see to others. 

When we show in our photography how we uniquely see, think and feel about what we see, we automatically create compositions that are like no other.   

Making a picture showing only what we see, instead of showing how we think about what we see, leaves our unique selves out of the picture.

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