gaze

This is my favourite wabi-sabi photograph from Monday's session at the MAC.

What do you see?  A tiny person threatened by a rapaciously toothed monster?  Someone falling from the top of a very tall peak?  A gentle, straight incline? A fine-art museum-piece?

In reality it was a deliberately out of focus photograph of some minor imperfections and scuffs on the side of a waste-paper bin.

flawed

The Japanese concept of wabi-sabi is intriguing. The celebration of impermanence, imperfection, melancholy and the everyday.

This is my first attempt at wabi-sabi photography.

Accidents will happen

I've just collected some more photos from the developers, but unfortunately this time something's happened during the processing.  Leaked chemicals perhaps, or maybe the printing machinery was not quite aligned properly.

At first I was tempted to discard the lot, but the more I looked the more I found beauty in the imperfections. Mis-cut, streaky and water-marked they may be, but interesting nonetheless!

What do you think …..