Valentine’s Day Special
I don’t usually shoot flowers, but this time I made an exception. Today is
Valentine’s Day.
I don’t usually shoot flowers, but this time I made an exception. Today is
Valentine’s Day.
I admire Joel Meyerowitz for his thought process, and I treasure some of his quotes.
“I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it’s got lots of accounting going on in it – stones and buildings and trees and air – but that’s not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.”
This is what Joel Meyerowitz said, and I couldn’t agree more with this.
As I am spending some quality time with photography, and refining my thought process, this is the same realization I am getting from inside. I believe that memorable photographs have three dimensions, and I do prefer to say the third dimension as feelings, energy, discovery (what Joel pointed out in his own words), or whatever emotional aspect you can think of which touches heart, embraces soul, and make a persistent impression in life.
So, If the third dimension is missing, does not matter how much colorful it is, or how beautifully it has been composed, the image will never stand in viewers mind for a long time. I have put together my views here more elaborately.
Here are a few street shots from New York City where I have tried to fill the frame with love and affection.
Again, in Joel’s own words –
“We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.”
Please share your thoughts, realizations, and experiences you have on photographs that impact you in some way. I know it changes with time and maturity as we grow. But still, this is important, because if we can’t define, visualize, how could we possibly create it?
Thanks you.
Does size matter in love? Well, you may say it depends on what kind of love you are referring to. Here, I am talking about body size and its relation to love and relationship only.
When I shoot this young couple in Brooklyn at the pick time of cherry blossom, April 2013, in front of Brooklyn Museum, they looked very happy and totally in love irrespective of their disparity in body size as you can see in the following images. After coming out from the Brooklyn Botanical garden with some cheery blossom pictures, I was roaming around in front of the Brooklyn Museum area, which is in the vicinity, and then I saw this young couple seating on a bench and kissing each other.
I approached them. You can imagine my gesture – an Indian guy with a camera in hand and sort of intruding in their private space, and I guess that’s how some photographers do in street people photography, especially in this kind of scenario. Anyway, they smiled back and their smile was a kind of approval that I can take pictures of them. I had a brief talk and they seem like very nice and friendly persons and got a feeling that they were enjoying life in their own way.
In conclusion, what I sensed from this short acquaintance that, apparently, their disparity of body size did not affect their relationship. You can see here a glimpse of their affection in a few images.
Sudarshan is an independent photographer based in Lake Mary, Florida. His works are soulful, transcendental, and have an enduring impact. He loves creating images, storytelling, and the creative process involved. He believes in simplicity, being close to life, openness, honesty, and the value of holding a camera with humor and compassion.
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