Village in Romania
Romania 2012
Funny how things stick in your head. Once in an assignment for photography class, I shot a tunnel that had lights arching over the ceiling. And I remember my teacher saying, “Do I see some design elements here?” Well, yes. I hadn’t noticed them before but now they were “embezzled on my brain”. ( a quote from a Steve Buscemi movie)
My teacher was young and had a great personality. We all tried to please him. He hated electric lines in photos. We either got a viewpoint where the lines didn’t show or we painstakingly painted them out with a special ink just for that purpose. I never could get the ink to match the photo perfectly and so I opted for the viewpoint without electric lines showing.
But here there is a convergence of the desirable and the undesirable. Electric lines forming a design element. How perfect. Most important of all is my woman in her kerchief and black dress. She is the “spark of life that every photo needs even if it is a dust mote in a shaft of light”…another quote stuck in my head… from an old issue of Darkroom Photography.