Light and Perspective

Lightplay, originally uploaded by nardip.

Before I get to this image, I wanted to talk about what it brings to mind for me.

There is a photographer's mindset that - if we're lucky - some of us develop. I don't know that I have it yet, but I'm working on it. It's pretty much the next evolutionary step up from "Oh, that would make a nice photo."

Consider this shot. It's likely that dozens, hundreds, maybe thousands of people have walked down this corridor without ever seeing what this photographer saw.

It's not a location for "Oh, that would make a nice photo."

It's much more - the play of light, the lines, the perspective and convergence, the geometry of it, and the warm light at the end. These things set this apart, for me, from "a nice photo".

Would I hang this on my wall? Probably not. But I can truly appreciate it for having many excellent qualities, and being an example of something that might only be seen by someone with the right mindset.