Now I got myself hooked on these shells. So I played some more with them and found out they can be quite useful for an investigation into storytelling.
There are quite a few photographers who think that every picture should tell a story. For a long time I myself was quite puzzled on what that really means, outside of documentary photography and journalism. That is until I understood that the real topic is how we process visual information.
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In case you wondered where the follow-up to the Notes on Composition post is. It will come, eventually. I am still thinking about it – and maybe too much so. It is a strange thing with creativity. Every time you think you are in the driver seat, creativity or your creative muse will kick you in the ankle and remind you that you follow her, not vice versa.
Coming back from a wonderful trip to the Indian Ocean I am still filled to the rim with new impressions and wonder about the manifold forms in nature. So I started to make a few pictures about the shells my wife and I collected at the beach (ah, ok I confess mainly my wife collected – I was more in a kind of dumb stasis trying to believe what I saw).
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