There are several meanings of the word “to shoot”, including: “to fire a bullet from a gun/to discharge an arrow from a bow”, “to take a photograph”…
So, I was standing at the embrasure of the Český Krumlov fortress, ready to shoot (to take photos), thinking about the defenders of the fortress who were ready to shoot (to fire bullets from the guns or to discharge arrows from the bows?) many-many years ago.
I know that landmarks are in the list of clichés. I know that there are many hundred thousand photographs of Český Krumlov. I’m not sure that there’s no photograph which looks alike, but it was my idea, my view, I didn’t see the same photograph before…I had a right to respond to this ancient fascination, hadn’t I? And everybody has the same right, even if we’ll receive the next photograph which someone calls a cliché.
“The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.”So let's define what we mean by “cliché”:
(David duChemin)
