Electricity | Tangled splices Conductive circuits Overloaded tiny charges |
T
he dialog between two images in a diptych can be based on many concepts. Here my main interest is the differences a slight change in viewpoint and temporal orientation can make. There was a time in my photographic past when I considered telephone and electrical poles and their associated wires to be an ugly blight on the landscape to be purged from my imagery. Now I consider them more grist for the artistic mill, to be embraced as a visual opportunity.
These images are made with my latest TtV lens fabrication that features natural optical edge radiation fall-off. The focusing viewfinder is loosely placed inside the lens barrel, and thus gravity is pulling it down making one of the edges sharper. Because the image is captured upside down due to the optical arrangement, the sharp edge ends up at the top of the image. Initially I felt this was a problem that required correction, but now am thinking it might add some dynamic asymmetrical balance. Perhaps a future enhancement would be a shift mechanism that would allow me to move the viewfinder around inside the barrel to control the edge fall-off during capture, depending on image content and intent.
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.” - Jonathan Swift
