Origin of Light

nice street shot! :-) seriously: strong abstract with it's lines and light!

Well chosen angle & good use of the light.

Hello Don,

I like this one very very much, a great photo to me. The way you tilted that frame, the warm light, reflections, shapes and textures, truly amazing! You know, I exchanged a few impressions about Man Ray with jack a few weeks ago, and I said I was a big admirer of the way he would create light motives using the reflection of light on objects in some of his films or photos. Here you have created a beautiful atmosphere, which evokes some modern Man Ray mood to me! ( I hope you don't mind my telling you so), I really like that picture of yours!

 

Hanna, thank you. Lines, indeed. I was amazed how many there were, when I actually looked.

Cherlyn, I appreciate it. I'm not sure how I chose the angle — usually when I tilt the camera this much, I'm lining something up with the "gridlines", but not this time, it seems. Light? 16 Watt compact fluorescent (doesn't it look a bit greenish to you?).

Laurent, merci beaucoup! As always, most thoughtful and thought-provoking. You made me see something about this: if both sets of blinds had been the same (either both open like the right one or both closed like the left), this corner would have been much less interesting. Thanks, I almost didn't post it here, it's so simple, but it grew on me.

I don't mind being mentioned in the same context as Man Ray, though that's an atmosphere far too rarefied for me. Like most people, I'm not as familiar with Dada as with its child, Surrealism, and I find Ray's non-photographic works more approachable, personally. Maybe I just have trouble appreciating untraditional photography. Anyway, quite flattering; thanks!

Exactly Don, you're right. Even though not conspicuous in the first place, this disymetry in the blinds brings more interest to the picture and enriches it with light, reflections, varied tones, excellent, really.

Don, Man ray also did a lot of beautiful portraits in his Hollywood years, which were more traditional, with his great personal use of light and shadows, beautiful. Actually, I'm not a great expert and I know the works of very few great photographers but there are pictures or paintings I could watch for hours, and what you achieved here is beautiful! Don, thanks again for your always very nice, humourous and creative commments!

"Blind Rays?" — Très intelligent et drôle, mon ami. I, too, look forward to your insightful and witty comments (here and elsewhere), and am, likewise, pleased to be stimulated into commenting by your provocative photographs. I am not even a small expert, I fear. You are right, I omitted his remarkable portraiture in my hasty summation of Ray; tunnel vision on my part, I suppose. I am impressed by anyone who does such a fine job of revealing their subject's spirit; I personally find portraiture the hardest genre.