Hi, everybody this is Craig Tanner for the Mindful Eye and the Photo of the Week on the Daily Critic. This week’s photo of the week was submitted by Albert. He is an advanced photographer. Our shot was with the Cannon 5D with the 24-105 zoom, and have used the shutting color and then converted to black and white. And I'm going to paraphrase from the back story that Albert submitted with the image.
This is a booty California which is a ghost town, and Albert noted that this is a very mature subject but the idea of ghost towns in this particular ghost town. What’s the mature subject? This is the subject that has been photographed a lot and a lot of these pictures have been published and there out there for the public out large to view. And our set test tendency is to shoot things in more of a literal way but because of how mature the subject is, but he wanted to go beyond the ordinary. And so essentially, what we’re looking at here is Albert shoot into the original wonder glass in one of the structures so we’re getting a view unto the literal aspects of the same. The buildings outside that were also getting reflections on the interior of the glass that are showing things that are on the interior of the room that is stand in. And never get a reflection on the outside of the glass. In fact that this is all glass and it’s sort of wort is adding to these reflections, and the only thing that Albert said that I told was really beautiful from a conceptual stand point.
So I said you know this is a ghost town so you got the idea of physical decay but he fell a lot about standing there on the idea of memory and sort of a loss. Also how the memories themselves decay and that was part of his concept. Here it is reflections showing a little bit a little of the tent hunting at the idea of the memory going away with the sort of the interior reflections. I just cant quite grasp with con sort of a get thorn but you cant quite totally get to all of it just like going to your memory and trying to remember something from a really long time ago. And I just love that concept in the image.
You know, one of the things that I'm really struck by when I look at this image and spend time with it, is that one of the rest that we take when we start to go away from things that I'm more literal is that the audience just won’t go along with this for the ride and what’s amazing to me about this image is that Albert has done such a beautiful job of combining literal ideas that we can get our mind around so their ideas here where you can quickly say, “o I know what that is.” And not only that but just from an intrinsic design standpoint just we’re for talking about the elements of visual design, all this bad frame in the image and the bat’s frame. So immediately sets up a rhythmic pattern, there’s a quality of line that dazzle it out into the shot that gets run and do immediately by reflections maybe of something or something that sets side some more sort of rectangular shapes and then you obviously see those concepts of special ideas on the buildings themselves that are repeating windows, top of the roof, over and over and over again on the side of the buildings then you start to see the idea very material in the reflections.
And then you start to see it break up and become even more material but it is still happening up here on the overlay in the sky. It was so amazing to me about this is you have these literal ideas that really sort of drawing you in and give you some kind of visual sea level. You have beautiful leading lines, and beautiful rhythm. You have all this things that create but unity and enough of a literal hook to get the view around there. But then once I get inside of this image, I start to figure out that something else is going on. And I have spent more and more time with the image. I'm just sort of amazed that some of the things that start to come forward particularly open this corner.
There are almost sets like I gear or something in the Cannon cole in the bottom part of it right in here and it starts to make me get closer to the image and try to move further and further into it. And then transfer fear at out what these things are there happening at this other level of reality in the image. I love the way these lines and these sorts of suggestions of flat space shapes and geometry you’re sitting on the sky which is very arterial and has a shape in the clouds. I love the way those softer shapes by shapes more arterial ideas of the clouds are playing out of the way the sage brush and brush in the desert grass is are looking to the window and then I love the idea of the cherry here.
For me, I cannot made an art lie this in the image and I come back to this open space in front of the table here and other rhyme. With powerful rhyme at the rectangle idea and other very, very powerful on this like a doorway there with another doorway. But then, there’s a negative space shape and I just love the fact that you know, if you were go setting the self I could see some like it moves the chair a little bit more out into the negative space and maybe turning words in a sort of point towards the same. And it’s just amazing sort how the chair is on the edge of that and its face the way from everything. And to me, that’s a very, very powerful achy type. You’re really a sort of have two choices here.
Anyway, this is the story that I'm making up and this is what so cool about images like this is it starts to let each person have their own overlay of story. But for me, these were the two spaces here you can try to confront the past and the lost and look out or you could just to come overwhelm and sit down on this chair and just look away from all of it and take a break. And just maybe you’re trying to go and set of your mind and try to use your imagination to this arm of these things that just are not quite there. Anything that’s amazingly about this image is that I spend on a normal some out of time with this image just like all the images that you see on a daily critic or a visually dark episode. And right before I was about to record the video, I notice that there’s a person right here that I've not seen and I look at the image for a very, very long time. And that just adds a whole another level of reality and it encourages me to come back around again and figure out if there’s anything out that I've missed in the image.
I'm really exited to say I'm very grateful to Albert for this that Albert submitted a whole port folio of these images and that’s going to make up our first inspiration image showcase. And I will go up on the Mindful Eye in a couple of days and I'm with that presentation. I’ll read Albert’s whole back story. There’s a whole other location that’s included on that port folio. It’s all in this concept of the ghost town but it has something to look for to a very inspiring and I want to say a huge thank you to Albert for creating an image that goes so far beyond the ordinary and I’ll just created such an amazing experience from me as the viewer, same on this image and also having been o this place.
And I want to say a big thank you to all of you for being here on the Mindful Eyes and the Photo of the Week on the Daily Critic. And I hope you have a great weekend everybody.
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