It’s a personal challenge of mine to take an image and to try to find the art in it. Often I’m trying to recapture a sense of what I felt when I took the original shot, as well as trying to create something new and exciting. My objective through photography is to portray the art in the everyday mundane, to somehow eek the magic out of the profane. I suppose it can be called a personal style, whatever that is. I don’t think I’m like other photographers who take consistently similar styled images, and are probably more likely than me to gain notoriety and win competitions, that’s not me at all. I’m way too eclectic in my tastes for that ever to happen, but I think my artistic objective is highly consistent at least. What you see in my work is a piece of me; my dreams, expectations, and a lifetime of experiencing condensed into a very precise visual format.
I’m finally happy with the result of this particular work, twelve versions later.
The Spanish Steps, Rome, Italy October 2016.
Phi 
I liked version 7B best! Just kidding. Nice work, love.
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Ha! Thanks. Some of the other versions are just as worthy, but this one captures that sense of visual realities merging, I think.
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I don’t know who or what you were taking a picture of at the time, but I can make you out pointing your camera at something in this shot.
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Reblogged this on Diary of a Person Being Human.
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Wow … nice shot~!
But—
—on my computer I couldn’t read the text (black on almost black) and (he’s swift, this lad, I tell you) it occurred to me—so I ‘dragged through’ with cursor and highlighted all the text. Boom boom!
Twelve versions? Methinks I am in the presence of someone who can take infinite pains … but the end result is well worth it.
(For myself I learnt the trade (as it were) with my trusty Brownie 127, and the chemist shop did the developing and printing. Thank heavens for modern digits …)
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Thank you, Argie!
I know, and I apologise. Unfortunately, I seem to be unable to alter the colour of the font without changing the background colour too. I was trying to avoid having to upgrade my blog to include customisation if colours. I don’t see why I should pay a subscription for my blog for stuff I don’t need. But that’s just me.
The other palette options weren’t great.
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…as for taking infinite pains to produce an image, that’s the fun bit. 🙂
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Morning/evening, Argus!
I’ve changed the background colour (lightened it) of my blog now. Let me know if you’re still having difficulties reading the text. You weren’t the only one to mention the difficult to read colour palette yesterday, so I had to do something about it. 🙂
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parallel worlds, so creative!! love this, Maria!!
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Thank you, Alexandra!! Very kind of you. 🙂
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