The Shadow Catcher no.5 (A Self-Portrait) by sandra46
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Is it serious, doctor?
The trouble is that I can't see most places, and I can't remember them without framing them through my camera objective. If I can't do it, I frame them at least through my mental eye. Now, even people are being framed through this virtual frame, when I look at them. Is it serious, doctor?
The fact that I'm behind the camera gives me a position of power over my surroundings. I have a power of definition through my framing. Sometimes, however, I get caught by myself. Here I was trying to overcome the reflections on the model boats, calculating the reflection angle of the glass surface. The boats were clear, but I was captured together with the background reflection of the opposite side of the street. I saw my person, with my two cameras, only when I was at home.
BTW, I love model boats, because my dad made them, though they were mostly galleons and frigates. Flavia and me have a fleet at home. This shop window is in Bremen, Germany.
I like this play of reflections, because they give the idea of how memories, personal or otherwise, tend to overlap.
Thank you for your kind comments.
Comments (41)
je crois que j'ai vu un photographe ! :))))) belle scene, cette couleur bleuté donne un aspect irréel à cette photo !! beau travail !!
very lovely !
Most excellent capture!
Wonderful window display and you captured it so well. Dana
Cool!!! The mind's eye.
it is hard to get things inside of glass but you done a good job
Great capture Sandra and your write up made me think. That doesn't happen very often lol!
The more I looked at this the more I felt that your reflection really made the picture. Such a ghostly image.
a wholly enchanting photo, and the reflections give the shot a feeling of memory...there's also a slight grain in the shot which makes it feel like a dream...The interplay of vertical blinds with the ship sails & glass bottles & 'ropes' (strings) that hold the sails in place is fine, a kind of visual music. And the bluish hue makes it feel dreamlike as well. I also like the frame (the dissolved edges), which add to the feeling of an aged photo. A fascinating piece on reflection—physical & personal—through the gentle ephemera of light, glass & memory quietly mingling for a moment in time. And I like the sails too, with their striped cloth...
It's a great muse that perhaps every photographer can identify with. Awesome capture and artwork, I like it!
Molto interessante il concetto di partenza e bella realizzazione della foto in cui entri a far parte del concetto stesso.