Today I was looking for the original RAW file of a photo I took back in 2009, and as I scanned through the year database, some of those old shots got my attention. Some were forgotten photos that were kind of cast aside then but today, under a different, perhaps more focused, context took a brand new meaning.
Sky on fire
Other photos I did like very much then, but kind of lacked the necessary “humpf” to make the top list, and today with new technology and perhaps a little more understanding of photography, presented an opportunity to reprocess them and give them the edge I’m looking for.
The House beyond the frozen lake
Some other photos just inspired me in a different way, after a few years, the expectations I had when I took them dissipated and I now allowed myself to look at them with a much more open perspective.
The Flow of Justice
As I began, working with each of this old shots, I remembered of a conversation I had with an artist many years ago. He showed me his work, made with pieces of old furnitures arranged to create very powerful and dramatic compositions that gave new life and purpose to these old, broken and rejected pieces.
He also showed me the evolution of his art from the very detailed and complex early drawings, all the way to his more recent, simplistic and symbolic pieces. The realisation of how the most subtle change has the potential to develop into an extremely powerful outcome remained impressed in me, and still today drives me to seek elegant simplicity in all of my work, photographic or otherwise.
Winter Sunrise
In essence, it all comes down to the key principles of innovation, where new context, advanced technologies and alternative perspectives allow for old ideas to take on a new life, purpose and shape impactful new forms.
Lough Foyle
Not bad for a trip in the past 🙂 … Who knows perhaps we have already invented the time machine, without even being aware of it… 🙂
