Galerie de Photography, Belgium 2
Sometimes
photographic images make you wonder about the nature of
reality. My digital camera sometimes "creates" images that are not quite
what my eye sees; for some reason, the colors change. (Fortunately, I have
a digital view-finder, so I'm able to see what the camera sees and know what to
expect.)
This marvelous unadulterated image is of an Jules Wabbes lamp. This famous 1950's Belgian designer created several sand-cast, art-deco bronze lamps each having layers within layers. This particular bronze lamp is perhaps 3 feet in diameter and hangs in the hallway of the home of his widow, Marie. Marie Wabbes is famous in her own right -- she's a writer/ illustrator of children's books, with about 150 to her credit. She's also an active member at Hulencourt, our Belgium golf club.
This photograph has been rotated to add a bit of spice and confusion. If you'd like to see eight more photographs of Wabbes' lamps, including a full shot of this one, click here.
This
photograph has been posterized. Posterization is a digital process that
reduces the subtlety of color changes, produces sharp,
high-contrast edges and adds color -- again in ways I
don't understand. These
"twin towers" house the toilets at a highway rest stop in France. It seems that there are opportunities for
photography anywhere.
Then there was the day I
photographed what I hoped was an interesting pattern on the
auditorium wall at Grand Hornu.
Unfortunately the light wasn't bright enough for my purposes. Instead I ended up with an underexposed, uneven image. As the next day was rainy, I played around with that image, converting it into graphic art. I call this tetramer, derived from that one photograph, Piano Play.