corner view ≈ imagine

consider the viewfinder. as in using both hands, mimicking a frame and there it is, your view. or use the camera's viewfinder. no camera at hand, squint your eyes to suppress surrounding rubble which helps to find the view you're looking for. it does work. finally, on paper, use a proper little {handmade} finder. any twist or turn brings up new angles, obviously. i do not use it often enough.
 

i've been experimenting with finding views, a process similar to making pictures. i'm a dedicated believer in making my picture inside the camera, not anywhere else. my former photography teacher's words echo pleasantly in mine ears, as soon as i set out walking and am shooting pics: "do not try and fix a bad composition. start afresh." 

coming back from my daytrip to london early last week, i threw away half of the snaps as i downloaded. no pondering nor thinking beyond the box. yes, i eliminated a first scented magnolia flower on the london wall, for it came out well bad. it had lost its allure through poor composition. a bad photo will not produce a good one, however hard you try. start afresh. 

i'm not your regular photoshop cropper, the same way i never was a dark room cropper. people sometimes ask me. do i do anything to my images? i do and i don't. bad composition in essence is a goner. light; that's a different matter. last week, i city walked in drab, grey weather and so i did colour and light infuse my images later, by applying simple PS parameters. i cut myself some slack.

with this tolerable set of images in front of me, i was trying to find other views. i was pondering cropping them down to a square format. could i make my images talk back to me that way and imagine if they would! i brewed myself a pot of coffee, listened and chopped-chippety-cropped a way through some forty snaps. jane's corner view, francesca's hosting, dorte's theme.