I read a wonderful interview with the actor Wendell Pierce, who plays the laconic Antoine Batiste in the HBO series Treme, about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. If you haven't seen this series yet, consider putting it on your Netflix queue, if only for the musicians featured, like Dr. John and Kermit Ruffins.
Pierce, a New Orleans native, talks about the vital music scene there and observes that how music is played — from the heart — "soulful" — is just as important, if not more so, than hitting all the notes.
On reflection, that's probably true for most creative endeavors, including photography. If a work of art — poem, painting, photo – doesn't speak from that soulful place, then ultimately it doesn't really connect with the audience on the level that art should.
