Through the Photographer's Eye

Thank you Karen for joining my “Through the Photographer's Eye” contest and congratulations on your second place! Only a photographer can know what settings of his camera to use to transform the simple portrait of two horses into a graphic drawing created by the backlight. You have seen beyond the real, you have sensed the possibility of having this effect with only the rim of the horses lit.

Thank you Howard for joining my “Through the Photographer's Eye” contest and congratulations on your 8th place! Only a photographer can know that using a macro lens and a shallow depth of field, the objects vanish in the blurry and become unrecognizable. A daily object that is transfigured, a minimalism that shows only a very small detail of the subject.

Thank you Steve for joining my “Through the Photographer's Eye” contest and congratulations on your 6th place! Only a photographer can understand the potential of this combination between painted man and dog and the real ones. Maybe it was the vision of an instant or maybe you waited for the scene to happen, but still you had a photographic eye.

Thank you Lydia for joining my “Through the Photographer's Eye” contest and congratulations on your 5th place! Only a photographer can use a macro lens to show us the infinitely small. A minor detail of a flower that becomes a fantastic being, almost a little marine creature, swimming in the abysses. A lovely abstract obtained with an excellent use of shallow depth of field.

Thank you Graeme for joining my “Through the Photographer's Eye” contest and congratulations on your 4th place! Only a photographer can consider a ray of sun not as a trouble in his eyes, but as a photographic element to be inserted into the scene, like a luminous blade that crosses it. A composition that uses the light present in reality, both as a lit rim of the person climbing the stairs, and as a silhouette of the person below.

Thank you Betty for joining my “Through the Photographer's Eye” contest and congratulations on your 10th place! Only a photographer can, with one image, tell a story that takes place in simple everyday life. You had a photographic eye to see this scene, where the reflected shoes precede the real people walking on the street.

Thank you for joining my “Through the Photographer's Eye” contest and congratulations on your 7th place! Only a photographer can know that using the appropriate speed and the movement of the camera can obtain this abstract effect so evocative. An effect that we cannot perceive with the human eye, and which it is also the result of the choice of the moment, the background, the lighting.

Thank you Michael for joining my “Through the Photographer's Eye” contest and congratulations on your 3th place! Only a photographer can find interesting as a subject a bouquet of wilted tulips that anyone would throw away. An image that intrigues me, I would like to know the story. Did you find them like this and photograph them before they were thrown away or did you make them wilt on purpose, because you found them more interesting than when they were fresh? Like an explosion, these flowers are not dried, but thirsty, exhausted. Isolating the subject on a light and uniform background, this simple scene convey sadness, pain.