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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/24/2006
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Hi Andre!
Hahaaa, indeed! I hope the poor guys won't catch a cold, though. :-) The water was freezing cold on that time of the year. (Spring 2006)
Ciao,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/24/2006
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Amen Andre!
We should be able to make some exact photographic representation of some landscape (or anything else) but we shouldn't stop there, since then we would be converting phototograohy to reprography.
So let's make more of those photos that we already carry in minds!
Cheers,
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 10/24/2006
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Nick,
I can almost see Sam and Frodo making their way across the lake :)
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 10/24/2006
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Hi Nick,
I like the grainy / dreamy image above, but I enjoyed reading your explanation to Giuseppe even more than the image! I think I understand what you are saying and what you are trying to do with your images. Nostalgia is always a big part of effective landscapes, I believe. As you say, if you are satisfied that you have created an image that "carries" in the mind... that is most important.
As you know, sometimes my landscapes are classic depictions and sometimes they can lean more toward fantasy. Some of them are somewhere inbetween. The interpretation can be in the eye of the beholder :)
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/19/2006
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Thank you very much for your nice comment, Giuseppe, that initiates many thoughts in my mind.
Well, let me put it this way. For many reasons I don't believe that photography should depict nature "as it is". One of them is, it is only our eyes that perceive nature being "smooth", but nature *is* grainy. (Quantum mechanics). OK, that is a very idiosynchratic reason ;-), but there are many more.
I neither believe that nature is the only possible beauty simply because it is nature. It is in the eye of the beholder, much like prefering some old scratchy LP of an opera instead of the "perfectly sounding" CD. (The CD sounds way not perfectly, but that's another story ;-)) Nature is not enough for me though I do love it. But I see pictures that are not only natural when I shoot. Personal preference if you like.
In addition, I am indeed very nostalgic about the times, when a trip in such places was still a miracle, and when people were able to project what they experienced on a grainy photo that was way not perfect according to nowadays measures.
So, it boils down to: What should the photographer capture? That what is out there, or that what he/she carries in mind? Most of the time I belong to the second group, I think.
Best wishes and thousend thanks for giving me that sparkle of a brainstorm.
Nick
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Giuseppe Guadagno
{K:34002} 10/19/2006
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A motorway on the lake towards that beautiful mountain (I am nostalgic).
Nick, I don't like very much the grainy pictures. I am surprise that you like it as nature is not grainy; and you love natural photos. You too are a bit nostalgic of "once upon a time ..."?
Ciao Nick.
Giuseppe
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/19/2006
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Thanks a lot for the nice comment, Shadi!
Best wishes,
Nick
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Shadi Porooshani
{K:11236} 10/19/2006
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so calm & peace shot my friend
all the best
shadi
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