Reality in Reflections
Why was it reflection photographs that interrupted my dry spell?
Intriguing that the subjects that fascinate me in the reflections are the same subjects that I am so bored with outside of the reflection.
ƒ/14 at 1/50 sec ISO 200
Could it be that I am looking for a way to flip my world perspective upside down? Attempting to reverse it? To see something along my photographic path that wasn’t visible when I passed it, as if the tranquil pool of water held the past for a singular moment after it flowed through the crossroads on the present?
It’s an abstract thought. An abstract scene.
A representation of what we artist do within the great representation formally called photography.
It’s an abstract world that can be discrete from the one that is familiar. In this dimension I wouldn’t have a laundry list of shortcomings, sins or shrouds on my character. This world is in harmony; sky and land merged into one frame.
It’s something simple. Innate. Basic.
Running around seeking small puddles in these huge landscapes. Seeking myself, the person that I could be in alternate realities. These miniature pockets of reality existing within our larger realities.
ƒ/3.5 at 1/100 sec ISO 100
ƒ/5 at 1/15 ISO 200
Monday, 23. November 2009 16:49
I may be out there on this, but what you were saying reminds me of how I look at them. If I see a reflection in the mirror or in water, the scene that looks back at me appears brand new. It looks as if I’ve never seen it before when it’s flipped around like that! And it’s cool to imagine it as some place else that leads somewhere I haven’t been. The reflection really seems to have a different personality to it than it’s reality counterpart!