Tale #3 - THE OLD MAN

Created in Scotland on a completely windless morning, THE OLD MAN portrays the Old Man of Storr perfectly reflected in the waters of Loch Fada. To break such perfect symmetry, I included two small boats in my composition, waiting for the perfect moment when they were both aligned, and both pointing at the Old Man’s reflection. Like all my images, this is a single shot, not a composite.

Scotland 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.