Someone asked me for recommendations on how to learn photography today. I ended up mumbling about learning your equipment and finding out your style, but nothing solid came out. That’s because I have no idea what I’m doing, and really, that’s fine. I’d rather not over-analyze things and I’m pretty happy with what I’m producing, so it’s all good.
Still, looking at this photo I was left wondering what someone else sees in it. I see the subject and the location, I feel the cold winter air, I know why I took the photo. I cannot trick my brain into seeing this photo away from its context, so it’s always fascinating to find out what other people see and what they get from it. Sometimes it’s the most unassuming photo that makes the most impact, and vice versa. All the more reason to not think too much about what I’m posting here. Who knows what something might get from it.
This was taken in Berlin, and that’s all the context you’re getting for now. I hope you like it.
I figured out the location before I read the last sentence, so I’m cool, heh heh. But before I figured it out, I admired the abstraction, the atmosphere and the mood — it seems like it’s the feeling you want to communicate. The photography teacher I recently had lessons from said that as a photographer, you are presenting things how *you* see/feel them, not as pure documentation of what something is. I think it’s fun that you let your right and left brains wander in opposite directions. :)
This is acutally too identifiable a thing, because I’ve seen maybe five pictures of it and was able to instantly identify it.
My first impression of the photo, however, was of a rainy windshield. But i think that’s more an artifact of having looked at it from the bottom up.