My wonderful girlfriend invited me to have dinner with some of her close friends cousin that she has not seen in some 7+ years now and with my trusty Canon SD780IS pocket camera we were off for a evening on the town and beach as fate may have it. While we were on the beach I started playing around with this little camera that I thought would not be able to capture anything interesting but low and behold after about 10 minutes of fumbling around in the menu I was able to snap a picture that almost reminds me of oil on canvas.

Girls Beach Night

What is really interesting about this photo? I noticed you become interested in what the girls are talking about and noticing they are wearing light jackets and have their arms crossed to keep warm. Then there are the distant lights from the local condo’s and street reflecting off the crashing waves to the far right of the picture, while all the time the beach holds the lovely ladies in comfort. It is a fairly simple picture but there is so many interesting aspects going on. The surpising thing, this is San Diego County, California in the middle of June usually a pretty comfortable time of year, even at night.

Anyway I am pretty amazed a small little pocket camera can accomplish something like this.

My name is William Knose and I grew up with a father that loved photography and Canon equipment. As a child I would love to watch him shoot photo’s and thought how fun it must be to capture a time in life in only the way he saw it. Growing older, through my teens, 20’s and now my 30’s I have possibly become more mature, still deciding if I really have or not, but one thing has not changed, I never stop playing photographer. One thing I have realized at a very early age is that photography would be a life long hobby capturing my view on where I have been and what I have seen while also being my own personal escape from the stress of life, even if only for a moment, I know it would be all worth it.

There are three things that have steered my yearning to become a great entrepreneur photographer, and one of which I never knew would affect my photographs so much. The first push was Photoshop, yes the world of 1’s and 0’s, I can’t help it, I am computer science and mathematics engineer by trade and have been dabbling in Photoshop for some 15 years now but have always thought of it as a hack for true photography. It has always been something I believed ruined the essence of the true photograph. Then only recently I discovered my second draw from a true master, Ansel Adams, and even came to find out how much time he would spend in a dark room with the simple technique of dodging and burning. He is believed to be the greatest photographer of the 20^th century and the person that gave photography its place in the world of art. While all the time what made him uniquely different was the ability to create a belief to the viewer that what was important was not what the camera saw but what Ansel Adams wanted you to see. He single handily changed my mind about what a photo should really be, not what the camera sees, but what you intended for the viewer to see.

Lastly, I recently came into a beautiful woman in my life that I love dearly and having her there as I photograph has really opened my heart to the beauty of the world. It is quite funny because even after discovering Photoshop and even Ansel Adams imagery I always felt something large was missing in my photos. As soon she was a part of my life, everything became clear; the emotion/feeling a picture can offer to a unique viewer drew my love for the perfect photo. To capture, not the moment, but the photo that will provide the audience with an inspiration for themselves. I have yet to discover it, but I now have a goal I am excited to find and share.

This blog will over an idea of what it is I have come to offer in only the past couple years of my life. Enjoy.