As this class comes to an end, I've been thinking about some of my past pictures in a new light (puns are fun, hehe). This picture has always caught my eye…..it's not so much that I like it as I'm stuck by the difference between the scene as it was translated in my eye versus how it translated in the lens of the camera. When I took this photo, I was relatively unimpressed with the view before me; the light was dull and dreary, it was raining lightly, and the building that takes center stage is abandoned and dilapidated. The picture, though, seems to be well balanced. I'm not sure why this picture stands out so much to me; I think it was an "ah-hah!" moment, a moment when I realized all that a lens can do for a scene. The end result with this picture is a scene of relative calm and balance….the light seems to be more vibrant than I remember, and the building has lost its sense of foreboding. In my next post I'm going to post some of my all-time favorite pictures and hopefully they will demonstrate an eye for more interesting subjects and landscapes. This picture, though, is a reminder of how light can change the feelings and emotions evoked by a scene.
Of course, it could be my memory that has been changed by the light as with the mice in my previous post. Hmm….
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