tobias m. schiel
Flare and photography… When I read this week’s photo challenge at Lost in Translation (the challenges are great, give ’em a try), I thought I should find a constellation that makes a flare of light the only subject of my photo, painting a picture with light actually. Then I found myself looking at this empty bottle by the end of a good day and suddenly reality pretty much ‘matched my picture,’ if only for a short moment, as is appropriate for a good flare.
Here is another one for Paula’s Photo Challenge – for want of a proper sundial.
A time window, or window of opportunity even, for the Thursday Special at Lost in Translation – Time – which this Thursday was hosted by Debbie Smyth.
These are for Paula’s photo challenge at Lost in Translation. I hope the god of small things will approve…
A contribution for this week’s Photo Challenge.
Just decided this one should be part of the Photo 101 Rehab. Check it out.
“Up there it’s just as nice.” These pictures evolved from the 2/3 series; I now wanted to go for horizontal rhythms rather than vertical. Since we keep looking upwards (nach oben), we get a view of the buildings we usually overlook during our daily business, and this is a contribution for Paleica’s Magic Letters: O.
This week’s photo challenge is Half and Half, and though I try to avoid halves, I think the idea is here. (The first picture even sports half a pair of socks.)
…and some more patterns for Paula – from a shop offering vintage clothes where I always find fancy things I can photograph, right in the street.
Paula from Lost in Translation wants to see patterns, and I want to start presenting my new series Le bonheur dans la rue. Et voilà!
Not me! I ain’t done nothing. Just happened to be there.
In my eyes, metal is one of the most fascinating materials (along with stone, wood, and glass): Different metals allow for different uses, display different grades of lustre, and corrode differently if at all. So Paleica’s photo challenge is a welcome occasion, although I feel I’ve already posted loads of “Metall.”
Since I have quite a bit of metal for you today – even in the second picture – I thought this might also be an appropriate entry for Paleca’s Magic Letters Challenge: The magic word is Metall.
A quick reminder because I love getting myself distracted by photo challenges: The 2/3 series features a simple formula: composition by the so called rule of thirds. The idea is to focus on structures and colours rather than composition while giving the pictures a uniform look. Based on this unifying ‘grammar’ it should be possible to arrange and re-arrange picture series according to different criteria – and tell different ‘stories’ – without losing a certain coherence. Here, the story told might be of rocks, or the remnants enclosed inside them.
empire of lights 