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"The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say:  "There is the surface.  Now think-or rather feel, intuit- what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way."  Photographs which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation and fantasy."
Susan Sontag in On Photography

Monday, July 18, 2011

More Contemplative Photography
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Finally got back to reading The Practice of Contemplative Photography today and was again inspired to capture some images. My plan was to head out on the streets to see what I could find but with temperatures in the mid 30's and high humidity I thought better of it and watched a movie instead. Some time later sitting in my air conditioned living room I glanced over at the window and this vase with a dead leaf in it jumped out at me. I had to take it out of the window to avoid the sun's glare but knew what I was after and the accompanying image is the result. The assignment from the section of the book I read was colour.

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