“We are born with eyes and ears. During our lives, we have to learn how to use them.”
The title of this piece is not a typo. I always try to get the window seat on a plane, so that I can photograph the scenery below. (As you can see in last week’s story.) An evening flight gives me a special opportunity to photograph light. After our recent trip to a conference in Las Vegas, I uploaded the images I took, did some processing, and showed the results to my wife. Her immediate reaction was “It looks like music”. Since Elfa knows music very well, she is also an artist, and we often go to concerts, her statement did not surprise me.
According to Wikipedia, “music is an art form whose medium is sound”. Sound is vibration, which we perceive through our ears. Light, which we perceive with our eyes, is also vibration. At the same time, we can visualize things with closed eyes and hear sounds with the inner ear in our minds.
The famous composer Ludwig Von Beethoven composed music even after he became deaf. It is said, that good musicians make music, instead of playing it. The same is said about good photographers, who manifest an image versus just taking a picture. All this leads to the realization that sound is based on our seismic communication, which actually is not one of our traditional five senses, but is often used to express our feelings.
So one question may be, how do we convey what is in our imagination, a unique perception, as we see it or hear it? How can we make it possible for others also to recognize our experience? I think this requires special training and perception. Years ago, when I made a negative comment about some art that I did not care about, my daughter Alona, who is an art dealer, suggested, before I make any comments about art, to learn about it first. This statement can be true about anything in life.
It does not surprise me that many good photographers love music. The famous photographer Ansel Adams, was a serious musician. The same can be said about Gordon Parks, who was not only an incredible photographer (and one of my favorite ones), but he also played piano and composed music. One of Gordon Parks’ books is called, “A Poet on His Camera”. When I was asked as a little boy who I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was a pilot and a poet. As a mortgage broker and photographer, I think I accomplished both desires.
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I cropped these images into panoramas, after I photographed them retaining the most effective parts. You can see my panoramas every Wednesday in Pacific Bay Financial’s “Mortgage Solutions For You”. Enjoy and share it with a friend!
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