Top Floor
I'm trying to move away from silly pictures of people (you know, the kind where they go "stand there, say cheese, click"), and move into the world of the abstract.
For one, I find abstract images evoke more emotion within me. I look at some of the abstracts I had clicked almost four years ago, and those are the ones that bring the greatest joy. Plus I find that abstracts are more open to interpretation and allow a viewer to unleash his creativity as much as he wants.
Like this little gem for example. No one, except for me, knows where I stood while I shot it, or what I was thinking, or what I was aiming for. Regardless, one can always appreciate the inherent congruence in the photograph, which is what I'm trying to bring out.
If you asked my honest, humble opinion, I'd say photography is about seeing things that our eyes can't or don't normally see. Our brains are equipped with such sophisticated filters that involuntarily remove or ignore half of the finest details that really give a picture its merit, just so that it can render a decent resolute image real quickly. But with a camera, there's no filtering. It sees what you make it see.
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