tobias m. schiel
A contribution to Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Signs – come to think of it, the message looks a bit wrong. – Anyway, there is just one thing I would like to try, see it as a little extra for today: Do the bottom three ‘work’ together? After all, they are Ironic Icons…
…or: Pac-Man’s Lunch? Or is it really a matter of growth?
A contribution to The Weekly Photo Challenge
A contribution to The Weekly Photo Challenge
“I’m not interested in the texture of the rock, or that it is a rock, but in the mass of it, and its shadow.” Ellsworth Kelly
A picture and a page today: Along with this picture and the noteworthy quote there are some thoughts on abstract photography on a new page today. See them as work in prgress – and feel free to disagree.
My kind of blue for the Weekly Photo Challenge
Isn’t it sometimes hard to tell if something was arranged or just happened? Esspecially when looking at photographs, we often are at a loss.
The situation you see here was composed by nature, and I only positioned it in a frame. While many photographers arrange people and things so they look natural in their photos, I love to do it the other way round – I do not arrange but love my subjects to look like they were deliberately positioned.
Making people look at what they usually overlook, making them see what they did not see before has always been one of the central objectives of photography. It is indeed rewarding to charge everyday scenes and objects with mystery. But the longer I photograph, the better I seem to understand that first and foremost it is light which accounts for an unusual appearance – both in the wotld that surrounds us and in pictures. There is nothing like getting drunk on light…
The sun shining into the wintery forest always appeals to me. But I could never get it into a proper picture – until I exposed on the lights, which lead to underexposing the whole by two stops.
Strolling the beach near Vlissingen (Holland), we found these small bits and pieces, their shadows exaggerated by a low evening sun. Then we realized that there was just enough breeze to drive small sticks over the beach and wave loose twigs and strings. Yet the wind force did not suffice to move the sand particles; hence every minute movement left its trace.
empire of lights 