Tale #10 - DROPLETS

Created on the shores of Loch Lomond at dusk on a spring evening, DROPLETS is a perfect reflection of the evening sky, its perfection broken by stone droplets pointing towards the place where the sun was. To create this image, I waded in the Loch’s waters, patiently waiting for them to settle again and extremely careful not to disturb their stillness during the long exposure I needed for this image.

Scotland 2018 | 5000 x 2813 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.