Unpretencious. The camera and techniques practiced in classes become unimportant and hardly noticed, rather the moment is the primary focus, and reflects what one feels strongly about. "There-ographs" are a photographer's worst trap, "Look, Bertha, at that pretty barn over there!" Snap. Nothing to it.
I want to take a photo that turns me ON and all those that see it, and beckons them into it. The camera disappears completely. Unless it is photojournalism, and must accurately portray an event or place, I see no reason not to put the viewer in rapture in the same sense the photographer is experiencing. I want to bring about emotions, many at once, all swirling around in one's head.. Just as the photographer should be experiencing as they take it. An empty photography, and I feel my worst photography always results from thinking something just 'looks nice.' Maybe for recording purposes, sure, but to really develop oneself as a fine art photographer it takes that extra oomph of extreme admiration or even hatred for the subject. I for one am still searching for what will define my photography, that visual which produces techinally good aspects (field-of-depth, composition, etc.) as well as never-ending meaning to me which shoots out of the picture. And it takes critisism to the max so that's why I like the idea of DeviantArt.