Purely Optical
Pre-conceptual
Physical world
Projection impression
Optical elements can be arranged to bend light with precision.
“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.” – Victor Hugo
Pre-conceptual
Physical world
Projection impression
Optical elements can be arranged to bend light with precision.
“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.” – Victor Hugo
Present moment
Perceptual field
Surface contact
Approaching various physical contingencies is always first an opportunity for aesthetic experience.
“The object is made determinate as an identifiable being only through a whole open series of possible experiences, and exists only for a subject who carries out this identification.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Original vitality
Actual autonomy
Ultimate evidence
Further defining the Helios lens optical potential, here red berries are in dual vortex optical windows within a swirling bokeh.
“On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels.” – Charles Dickens
Subtle color
Fine texture
Lake shore bend
On every walk around ocean lake, I pause and admire the colors and textures of this spot.
“There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.” – Edward Abbey
Duel vortex
Decent distance
Helios special
The Russian Helios 44-2 lens creates awesome bokeh in a swirling circular pattern, perfect for places that already possess an enchanted ambiance.
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” – Roald Dahl
Circumstance set
Mutually implicative
Complete ideas
Deliberately arranging diverse elements, photography is as much about photography as it is about what is photographed.
“There is nothing in the understanding which has not come from the senses, except the understanding itself, or the one who understands.” – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz