Whole Reality Photography

15

Mar

Backlit Leaf

This simple picture of a leaf is interesting, I think, because of the way the backlighting makes the leaf stand out from the background and gives it a richer, deeper color. There’s something about this sort of lighting, perhaps similar to stained glass windows, that we find visually appealing.

It takes two separate elements coming together to make this effect, and I think the combination illustrates a subtle aspect about our minds, especially the nature of consciousness.

3

Mar

Refreshing Whole Reality

After allowing this site to go mostly inactive for the last few years, I hope to renew it with a clearer vision. Long-term, I will probably rebuild it from scratch, but in the meantime, hope to use the current version to work out the vision, do some experiments, and share some photography. As a start, here’s a description of the initial path.

Whole Reality is an exploration of the art and craft of spherical photography* and its use to convey ideas and emotion. This is common with some types of standard photography such as fine art, abstract, and so on, but is much less common with spherical photos.

Instead, spherical photos are normally used to provide viewers with a “you are there” experience by allowing them to look around a scene in any direction. Examples include Google StreetView, showing real estate or hotel rooms, and making immersive games. These applications are useful and fun, but still leave plenty of room for new artistic expressions.

As a result, there’s an opportunity for new thinking to develop this capability.

30

Sep

WWP Transportation

This is the Albany train station, a transportation hub in the mid-valley. This was taken for the WWP Transportation theme.

11

Mar

Photo Walking with Purpose

A recent photo walk taught me some things about seeing and how we influence what we see by what we are looking for.

30

Dec

Thompson’s Mills 2

This is the interior of Thompson’s Mills. Read more

22

Sep

Albany Carousel

This is the Albany Carousel. Read more

27

May

Structures

This is a picture of the ceiling inside Hoffman Covered Bridge. It was used as an entry to a photo contest of sorts, one that highlights photographers at work. Read more