Pennan, Scotland ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone
(embiggenable) • iPhone / µ4/3
"Surrealism, the mystery of place, solitude, and a heightened sense of the nature of things - night photography seems a worthy vehicle, a ritual to express these themes." ~ Tim Baskerville
WHEN CONFRONTED WITH THE DIFFICULTY OF MAKING AN INTERESTING PICTURE of the real world as the the medium of photography and its apparatus record it, aka: straight photography, most picture makers resort to adding art sauce, of one kind or another, to what comes out of the camera. iMo, that practice is a manifestation of a picture maker's inability to connect with "an internal rather than an external part of life"...
"Photographs should be symbolic rather than descriptive...they should suggest to the reader an internal rather than an external part of life." ~ Erich Hartmann
Or, the inability to recognize that there might be "messages from another world" to be had...
"The camera is much more than a recording apparatus. It is a medium via which messages reach us from another world." ~ Orson Welles
An unfortunate fact of the human condition is that most people tend to want to escape from the real world rather than to attempt to connect with it. Consequently, re: the medium of photography and its appparatus, art sauce laden schlock out-"sells" straight photograph by a wide margin. That's cuz, for most, what is on the "surface" of a picture is the thing and an awareness of what might be beyond that surface is not part of the program.
Now, to be certain, we all need an "escape" now and again. That too is part of the human condition. However, that desire should be balanced with the idea that we all need to "get real" as well. Without that balance, it's all koyaanisqatsi.