Jason Giraulo
- jgiraulo
- Palm Coast, Florida
- Explorer
- 0pts
Creative Statement
I relish the opportunity to show the world something they don’t normally get to see. I think that's why people have always taken pictures is that frozen moment, whether it's a relative or a memory. For me, nature speaks and I get to experience things that maybe not everybody gets to see or do or experience. I get to capture a moment, freeze it and keep it forever.
My history as a photographer is actually backwards. A lot of photographers become movie filmmakers; I actually started as a filmmaker. I was a 15 year old video producer in high school, and fell in love with the idea of capturing information and telling stories. Growing up, my mom always said oh, you should be a photographer; and of course I never listened to her, but the reality is that I almost missed the boat. I went to school for video; I had my own cable show at 17; I was successful early. And for some reason filmmaking never really led me anywhere, and I ended up producing stories that I didn’t really believe in. I think that when my wife and I started going out and exploring nature and state parks and seeing things like Blue Springs for the first time and all that, photography was just sort of a natural extension of that, where these experiences can live beyond the moment, for me and for other people. I think that my obsession is making great images, not just technically great images, but images that capture something unique, something special. One example is my birds and my nighttime pictures.
Nighttime photography gives you a window into something that no one can see – because our eyes can’t perceive it. And so that’s an opportunity using technology to amplify nature. And with birds in flight – I prefer photographing birds in flight infinitely more than still lifes, though of course I will take the still nonmoving birds too – but birds fly, that’s their story, and so I think birds in flight just tells their story better, captures their essence better. Capturing that moment is why I’m a photographer.
