A thought:
Perhaps the joy of us as photographer is this: To discover beauty in unexpected places!
Uncovering beauty in the mysterious world in which we live in
The joy of photography, monochrome, flash, etc is this:
Photographing the world TRANSFORMS the world, and also uncovers hidden beauty.
For example, I don’t see the world in monochrome, I see the world in color. However when I shoot with RICOH GR II/RICOH GR III in high contrast monochrome preview JPEG, I SEE the world in monochrome which makes the world simpler, more elegant, more interesting, and more beautiful.
Photography as “Eye Spy”/”Where’s Waldo”
For the most part, we all see and witness similar things in ’embodied reality’. But our skill and passion in photography is this:
See and uncover beauty where others don’t see it (beauty in the mundane/everyday).
SHOOT ON!
ERIC
Photography by KIM
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