5 Comments

1. Markus Spring says:

   November 22, 2008 at 12:38 pm

   The portrait in the mirror is just great in my eyes. Everything seems so well controlled, the lines, the shapes, the symmetry, and then there’s her face, plainly adding life and in this way transforming. Outstanding.
2. matt says:

   November 24, 2008 at 6:54 am

   Marcus, thanks! Glad you like it, as it’s one of my favorites from the trip.
3. Tom DeCuir says:

   November 24, 2008 at 8:54 pm

   This one (diamond mirror shot) has got that weird, intangible “something” that I find super-special. One of the top 5 I’ve seen on this site.

   Okay, I’ll give it a go: It’s a combo of the bizarre (im?)balance of symmetry and asymmetry, a subtle repetition of form, and the contrast of near/far depth, all juxtaposed against something as banal as a glance in the mirror before going out.
   Part of it is that I can’t tell if the photo’s story is being told first, second, or third person—and that mystery rocks.
   Oh yea, Kate’s cute too, blah blah. :-)

   Kudos on some badass composition!
4. matt says:

   November 25, 2008 at 6:47 am

   ‘Part of it is that I can’t tell if the photo’s story is being told first, second, or third person—and that mystery rocks.’

   I wish I could say that all that was going through my head when I took this, but it was more along the lines of ‘Hey, that light is pretty, that mirror is weird, and there’s my girlfriend. Click.’
5. Tom DeCuir says:

   November 25, 2008 at 12:05 pm

   Yea, I’m sure you didn’t—never time for that—but I don’t think it matters if you conceptualized those thoughts or not.

   Way I see it, the genius of gut-level instinct exists whether or not we use conscious thought to shorthand and intellectualize its meaning. It’s there—click—it happens, regardless of how facile the language chunk of our brain is in expressing what the other 2 pounds of grey matter said non-verbally.

   Hell, we think about it too much and we run the risk of deconstructing it, and missing the moment anyway. I raise my glass to your itchy trigger finger!