Reflections of an amateur observer of everything

Well, well...This is an unambitious photo blog. I use it to organize my thoughts, document them forever not to forget.

Some instances I capture - I imagine this is true for any photographer - connect to my mind in a special way. Not always because they are pretty, impressive or artistic but simply because at the very moment I freeze and capture the light, I happen to have a thought that I would remember and together with the instance on film they freeze and connect to the picture forever.

I do not, cannot, should not claim that either the photographs or the thoughts that accompany them have any artistic value. That would be quite arrogant of me. They are at least and at most spill overs from my mind. I hope at least a few will appreciate and enjoy...



Friday, January 15, 2010

Deep in thought on the Golden Horn


This instance was deeply inspiring. At least for me. Especially when I recall that at the very moment I captured this instance, I was just having good time, downing a few bottles of beer with thoughtless abandon. But isn't this kind of contrast between the observed and the observer the interesting part of it all? At the moment, I inadvertently imagined a parallel between the respective contrasts of the glimmer of the Golden Horn and the man in thought on the one hand and the mindsets of the thinking man and the thoughtless observer on the other.

The man, craving for a connection to luminescence maybe for clarity, or perhaps for advise but most certainly unaware that he is a party to blooming thought in process. And the observer, just marveling at the parallelism he finds, real or imagined.

Anyway, this was a fine autumn dusk at the shore of the marvelous Golden Horn. I think it is just natural for even an amateur like myself to find inspiration.

Real sized version here

- Nikon D80 Shutter Speed 1/4000, Aperture F14

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