Stuck (2020)
— I arranged photo meetups in #Stockholm a few years ago and one photographer I invited was the legendary Gunnar Smoliansky. Look him up, he was active for seven decades and had a wonderful tender way to observe reality.
One of the things he said was that when he found a motif he rarely raised the camera, but instead walked – and looked – around a bit to get acquainted with it, to take it in, to "see". I don't think this is arty-farty mumbo jumbo but believe that there's an important truth to it.
As I've photographed the dunes here in The Hague over the last few years I've in a similar way come to "know" some areas quite well and begun to "like" some of them, and some trees specifically, more than others. This is one such tree, which I keep returning to. I think is simply lovely to behold. It's as if it's literally alive, reaching for or striving towards some unknown goal.
••• Stuck (2020)
Hasselblad 203FE
Carl Zeiss 80 Planar
Kodak T-Max 100
Kodak HC-110B
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Stuck (2020)
— I arranged photo meetups in #Stockholm a few years ago and one photographer I invited was the legendary Gunnar Smoliansky. Look him up, he was active for seven decades and had a wonderful tender way to observe reality.
One of the things he said was that when he found a motif he rarely raised the camera, but instead walked – and looked – around a bit to get acquainted with it, to take it in, to "see". I don't think this is arty-farty mumbo jumbo but believe that there's an important truth to it.
As I've photographed the dunes here in The Hague over the last few years I've in a similar way come to "know" some areas quite well and begun to "like" some of them, and some trees specifically, more than others. This is one such tree, which I keep returning to. I think is simply lovely to behold. It's as if it's literally alive, reaching for or striving towards some unknown goal.
••• Stuck (2020)
Hasselblad 203FE
Carl Zeiss 80 Planar
Kodak T-Max 100
Kodak HC-110B
___________________
philipus.eth || philipus.com
@philipdygeus ••• @philipdygeus.too
The Hasselblad Film Gallery ••• Leica & Film Friends
#120film #Mediumformat #HasselbladFlextightX1 #Hasselblad #Hasselblad203FE #KodakT-Max100 #tree #longexposure #6x6 #squareformat #nature #instagram #fiftyshades_of_nature #pretty_shotz #film_is_photography #grainisgreat #shotonfilm #filmisnotdead #lovefilm #nograinnoglory #trees #winter #monochrome #thehague #netherlands #hc110