Rogg4n
Jura Hills by Night - La Chaux-de-Fonds - Switzerland
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There is always something a little bit problematic when you know that you are moved by a picture because it's realted with you own history. When you post picture on social media, what you want is to test the ability of your picture to affect people living anywhere on the globe. For this reason, you want your pictures to be potentially universaly interessant : in other words, you want it to have equal chance to interest someone living in the cold mountains, in a big city, or on a lonely island.
However, sometimes, you can't help finding appealing images that are especially related to you or the specific place where you live, and so you have absolutely no idea how it will affect people living somewhere else… There's probably good reasons to post such pictures anyway – even if it's a little bit 'risky'. 1. For a lot of people, photography, as an art, should be a representation of it's author state of mind. In this sens, it has to be related with is own history. I am not in such a way of thinking, but I can understand it. 2. There's a problem with the 'universally pleasant pictures' : they are very predictable and conventional. You can see tons of them. Of course, they are always pleasing. But paradoxically, if it is true that we like predicable pictures, it's also true that we want photography to show us something that is really different from what we are used to see. Maybe, art starts only when this limit is crossed.
I don't have such pretension with this shot : it's quite predictive and consensual, I agree. But the very reason it moves me it's because it represent the typical landscapes of the place I am coming from. In this nightly snowy version, it achieves to make it cozy and to make me feel 'Home' when I watch it. I have very little idea what kind effect it can create one someone who is not used to such places. Let's see ...
Jura Hills by Night - La Chaux-de-Fonds - Switzerland
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There is always something a little bit problematic when you know that you are moved by a picture because it's realted with you own history. When you post picture on social media, what you want is to test the ability of your picture to affect people living anywhere on the globe. For this reason, you want your pictures to be potentially universaly interessant : in other words, you want it to have equal chance to interest someone living in the cold mountains, in a big city, or on a lonely island.
However, sometimes, you can't help finding appealing images that are especially related to you or the specific place where you live, and so you have absolutely no idea how it will affect people living somewhere else… There's probably good reasons to post such pictures anyway – even if it's a little bit 'risky'. 1. For a lot of people, photography, as an art, should be a representation of it's author state of mind. In this sens, it has to be related with is own history. I am not in such a way of thinking, but I can understand it. 2. There's a problem with the 'universally pleasant pictures' : they are very predictable and conventional. You can see tons of them. Of course, they are always pleasing. But paradoxically, if it is true that we like predicable pictures, it's also true that we want photography to show us something that is really different from what we are used to see. Maybe, art starts only when this limit is crossed.
I don't have such pretension with this shot : it's quite predictive and consensual, I agree. But the very reason it moves me it's because it represent the typical landscapes of the place I am coming from. In this nightly snowy version, it achieves to make it cozy and to make me feel 'Home' when I watch it. I have very little idea what kind effect it can create one someone who is not used to such places. Let's see ...