Ron Mayhew Photography
I’ve been helping Ron update his website over at ronmayhewphotography.com for the last few weeks. I thought about placing this post over in the portfolio section of my site, but, really, all I did was supply a little CSS know-how and some other minor tweaks to help him achieve the look he wanted. While Ron is fond of telling me “I’m a photographer, not a web developer”, five minutes on his site will prove him wrong. He’s done an amazing job of putting this site together.
Beyond the site, however, the real reason for this post is, well, I wanted to share something I realized while working with him. While I’ve known a few folks that claimed, or actually were, photographers, Ron’s work was the first time I really understood photography as an art form, aside from the Ansel Adams prints we all see around. These images, really, made me see a camera in his hands is very much like a brush is to a painter. The quality of work here isn’t in the equipment, it’s in the eyes, the artist’s perception of the moment they are trying to capture, and that the true artistry in photography is in actually being able to capture that moment exactly as the photographer intended. If you would like to see some amazing stuff, pay his site a visit, you won’t be disappointed.
