Tale #7 - THE BLUE VOYAGE

Created in Iceland during a spectacular sunset, THE BLUE VOYAGE uses the reflective power of a glacial lagoon to transform the shape of the icebergs while leaving the rest of the world around them untouched. The perfect symmetry of the scene is framed by the differently colored foreground ice. Creating this image posed the technical challenge of keeping the moving icebergs sharp while using a long exposure to smoothen the clouds.

Iceland 2017 | 5000 x 3333 px

ABOUT TALES OF TWO WORLDS

Reflections are a deep, philosophical subject more than a photographic one for me, and one I love exploring and working on at any chance I get.

Photography is never real; it’s just a bi-dimensional representation of a four-dimensional reality. Photography is an interpretation of reality. Reflections are optical illusions, mere perceptions of reality. I always considered reflection photographs to be images telling tales of something in between two worlds.

To tell my tales, I often like to introduce elements breaking the perfect symmetry of my reflections; visual anchors, points of interest, or simply something hidden in the image, something that you can’t really see but it’s there if you look for it.

Photographing reflections is an exploration of the interplay between what we perceive as real and what is just a perceived image of that perception. This collection is a 4-year slice of that exploration.