Elise Crawley

I know very little about photography so I thought that LaBelle’s article was rather helpful.  Still, I think that the sum of photography comes down to the basic “I don’t know art, but I know what I like.”  Clearly many of the elements that LaBelle mentioned (emotion, humor, angle, reaction, etc.) go into creating a “likeability” factor, truly amazing photos like the raising of the flag on Iwa Jima just seem to happen and a lot of it is luck as to whether or not you get the photo.  That said, I do think that patience is key.  In looking at the photos by David Snider, I cannot image how long it took just watching searching to get some of those shots.