Italian Reflections Guest Photographer this month is Jessica Stewart. I met Jessica some months ago when I first dropped by ‘RomePhotoBlog’. Since then, we’ve become friends. I am now a regular visitor to her photoblog which is aimed at capturing the city of Rome through the eyes of a someone who lives there.
Jessica says: “I started RomePhotoBlog a little over a year ago because I just didn’t see the Rome I knew and lived being represented on the web. I thought the best way to get my point of view across would be through my photography and I’ve been really amazed by how well received its been.
My hope is that people coming to my blog will come way with a sense of Rome as a really city and not just a picture postcard tourist attraction. Not that it doesn’t have that aspect as well, but there’s just so much more there!“
The Questions and Answers!
1. When did you start getting interested in photography?
I think really when I started travelling, which was when I was in high school. Being in surroundings so different to myself made me want to capture them. But it wasn’t later until college and then the past few years when I started taking it more seriously.
2. What in your opinion are the ingredients of a good photograph?
Lighting and composition. You can have all the best technical knowledge in the world, but if you don’t know how to compose a photo, it’s just not going to work. And knowing how to handle light and the different effects it can have really changes what you can do with your photography.
3. What is your favourite photograph that you’ve shot to date?
That is such a hard question to answer! I find my favourite changing all the time as I take more and more. But some of my favourites are close ups I took of Michelangelo’s Moses sculpture, a photograph of a beggar on the via dei Fori Imperiali, and a little girl I captured touching a piece of street art.
4. What do you hope to convey to others via your photography?
I hope that it will first have a sense of the life here in Rome; I want moments to be captured that people feel like they could step into. I also hope to give people pause to look at things they normally wouldn’t, and hopefully that then carries over into their own lives.
5. Do you look at the World wondering how it would look as a photograph?
I most definitely do, especially since I started the blog a year ago. I often bring my camera along with me all day because there are too many times when I’m in a random place and all of a sudden I see the perfect picture – if I don’t have my camera, I can’t take it. Some of my best images have come from just wandering around and waiting until I saw something that I knew would be a great photograph.
Drop by Jessica’s blog or receive Jessica by RSS and catch her on Twitter. Jessica’s work can be purchased, contact for details at info@jessicastewartphotography.com? She’s got an incredible photographic collection.”
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