The Act of Seeing

Do you Experience what you are looking at?  Sometimes things we look at appear and disappear because we don’t really see them.  Maybe it is because we don’t take the time to examine or appreciate what we are looking at.

Photography or the art of photography requires a certain amount of sensitivity to your surroundings.  There is a marvel at what appears to be the ordinary.  Seeing is the ability to look at a scene or object and appreciate its form, shape and the patterns.

In my backyard there are several of those plastic lawn chairs, which for one reason or another never get used.  I observe them every day on sunny days, overcast days from dawn to dusk.  On windy days they are blown from one side to another.  And after several years of looking at them I decided to photograph them at various periods during the times of day, stormy weather and how they appear under different lighting periods.  So while this blog is about seeing and the photographing of a somewhat ordinary subject...it is also a study of light and how light can change the appearance and mood of a seemingly ordinary subject.

All images were shot using a Sony A7II and Sony Nex-7 cameras.  I can be contacted at nymacc@gmail.com for comments or questions.  As a photographer I have a willingness to loose myself in what is before me. This process is part mechanical and part creative.