The Camera As A Time Machine

Part of the magic of photography is the ability to effect how we conceive time. we have recorded people and things that are no longer here. We also can make accurate records of patina on objects that show time has effected them. The visual record of people who have matured records the character that time has left with them. We also see transition of season, weather, and erosion. Only photography as a medium allows us a true perception of the passage of time. In all actuality every time we press the shutter that fraction of a second in time has passed and cannot be retrieved. In creating art with photography we should use this to our advantage to make pictures that transcends time or embrace it. Time should be a consideration in how we make images  The church is no longer here. The water fall is the same, there was a ten year span of time between the two pictures. The patina of the factory door shows years of use. The feathers fade toward the edge of the picture showing an evolution of time  with the use of five separate exposures.