Sometimes, when you go out to photograph, instead of you finding an image, an image finds you. Unexpected, unbidden, it calls for you to capture it with the camera. It begs you to pin it down, within the frame.
This is one of the things I love about photography. This is why I like to wander around, camera in hand. I never know what I will find. I never know what will jump out at me. The scene that originally caught my eye usually gets transformed into something different. I get to see the world in new ways. The world begs me to see it in new ways, to frame and reframe it.
I wasn’t looking for this image, but it needed to be captured when I found it. I wonder why?
what you say is so true, this is a lovely photo, shows how time effects some of the rivetts so that some rust and some stayed new looking, I love the grey with the rusty streaks,
i love when the inspiration finds me! thanks for helping me to stop and think about that today kat 🙂
I like to think that it’s the amazing unity of all things that pull us together. We are all connected, even to objects. Some of them call out to us….each of us seem to be pulled by different things. Maybe we’ll never know why, but it wonderful, isn’t it?
I love your idea of unity and connection to all things Gina. We probably will never know why, and it’s kind of a delicious contemplation and un-knowing that I find interesting about life. I like to ponder the mystery but not answer it, if that makes any sense!
Interesting indeed. I’m always amazed at what draws me in when I have my camera.
I’m the same way. The majority of my photography is the result of wandering. And the amazing thing is that I wander the same places, over and over, and still come home with something new or an old thing seen in a new way. How can that be? That is the wonder of photography, isn’t it?
And I can completely understand why this image called to you – the mix of shiny and rusty; the rivet pattern; the vertical and horizontal lines and that tiny “101”.
I know, it’s that 101 that did me in and made me capture this picture. I love how you write about “an old thing seen in a new way” or even understood in a new way. Photography is an amazing form of personal expression!
I can so relate to the wandering…always finding something or something finding me! Love the shot!
Wandering is the best! Isn’t it?