akul wrote:
Wayne, I keep staring at your image of lights. It is quite beautiful.
Thanks Luka!
I like the composition, color and simplicity(few elements) of your last orange tape abstract shot.
akul wrote:
Hi Carsten, thank you for your comment. Your question made me think about what I am doing, which is a good practice. I think I am following my interest which sometimes may appear it is a new project, but it isn't really so. During work week, my interest is. as Philippe said, 'making a lemonade out of a lemon'. In particular, I look for scenes, setting that are ignored, unnoticed, but has potential to be interesting. I tend to be drawn to interesting spatial relationships, transparency, layers, framing, lighting. One thing that I am paying more attention lately ( slightly ) to is when to avoid parallax, and when to ignore it, or use it for dynamic composition. But that is rather minor change. Oh, one more thing, as I got a new toy (35/1.4) I have not shot with other zeiss lenses at all the last few weeks other than when I was doing comparisons. Over weekend, or during break, I go out hiking, or walk around the park. During which, my practice is to make composition from trees and the surroundings. So subject is different but intent is still similar. ...Show more →
Love the explanation here. It's similar to my shooting as well. Yes, I have projects but I also have my Daily Wanderings, which is what I named my blog, precisely for this type of reason. I also have a great appreciation for going out with one (new) lens and shooting the crap out of it. How better to get to know it. Until recently, the 35/1.4 was the only lens on my camera but now I'm back to some variability.
I like what you shoot and what you see. It inspires to consider subject matter that many of us overlook.
'First one looks like the one on the zeiss website @ 100 makro planar page.'
I took a look, it's not even sharp. Prayer flags (tarchoks) are everywhere high (passes, temples) in the Tibetan Buddhist world: Nepal, Tibet, Ladakh, Bhutan, some of China.
My shot is from the top of Chiu Gompa, where Milarepa spent his last week on Earth nine centures ago - it's at 4700 metres, looking across the holy Lake Manasarovar, in West Tibet. Several days in a 4wd just to get there, and gets my vote for the most beautiful place in the world.
Thanks Philippe! Here is another, of the same fountain I believe you once shot to great effect, this time the Deutscher Dom (the first one is the Franzözischer Dom):
