As most of you will know I take pictures of people. Humans. Sometimes Super Humans. As long as there’s a person in an image you got me hooked. Much less so with pictures, without humans. It will take a lot for me to get excited about images without a person in it. To me they are empty. A room or a space is empty with the absence of a human being. Does that mean it’s also boring? Maybe… maybe not.

Don’t get me wrong, I hold great respect for folks who can spend hours taking a picture of say a building. And I can get excited, when photographers achieve expression and meaning in the absence of a face or a human figure. It must be the hardest thing to do.

Perhaps out of this appreciation for the select few who “can” do it, I recently became aware of a few “empty spaces” around me. I pass by them regularly and have been for years. And suddenly they grabbed me, spoke to me even. Is it the absence of person, the absence of what interests me, that these places suddenly start to captivate me?

Here are two attempts:

Recreational Area…

Basketball Court…

(I have to admit: I also wanted to test my new 17-40mm f/4L … )

Happy weekend to all!

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Posted by nicolas_henri on July 5th, 2008 :: Filed under Photography, Uncategorized
Tags :: Empty, Space, Wide Angle
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