While I'm fairly widely-read in general, I nonetheless am quite deficient when it comes to what are generally considered The Classics. One of few such tomes I plodded through, while a university student, was Dante's Inferno. I did not read it out of obligation to a class, but rather I was fascinated by the proposed topography of Hell.
Abstract (Homage to Dante), #9203
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Details: July 3, 2010; Canon 20D; f/6.3 @ 1/100 sec; -1 EV; I SO 100; 100mm.
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How do u get such ideas....another great one....looks like a painting
ReplyDeleteAbstract (Homage to Dante), #9203:
ReplyDeleteThe delight and trouble with abstracts is that they are, well... abstract. The piece itself is one of violent change and movement- One can see flickering, dancing light and shadow, a sense of something reaching upward toward the unattainable.
The photographer knows what he has photographed; to the viewer it is a wonderful mystery, a vast field of possibility-
What better feast for the eye and heart than the orange and umber picture of... A planet falling onto the sun? The flames of hell, buoying up a higher circle of torment? The center of the earth, all magma and molten iron?
Pity the poor photographer- He knows what it IS.