I am in Fort Worth for a couple of days. I took this picture of downtown Fort Worth reflected on the glass facade of a building. I was wondering why I took the photo this morning from the balcony of my hotel room directly across the street while enjoying a cup of coffee. I normally don't take photos unless I am officially in a "tourist" mode. It could well be that reflections and city structures were on my mind subconsciously because I am currently in the middle of a crime thriller set in Los Angeles and Hong Kong in which the location of a crime scene is deciphered through an accidental flash on a video that catches the images of surrounding buildings as reflected on a window pane. The police work backwords, or rather flip it from left to right to figure out where the place is.
After seeing the photo on my Facebook page a blogger friend sent me the link to one of his essays on 3 Quarks Daily.
That's a lovely unreal version of the reality. I love these kinds of photos. Sometimes they happen by serendipity- when I was trying for a perfect macro, but end up with a blurred effect that is beautiful just because of the swirl of the colors, not the object that they represent
Posted by: Sujatha | June 06, 2012 at 05:20 AM
in the film "playtime" by the great Tati, there is an interesting use of city buildings and their window reflections. the city is set in paris...throughout the film, you only see a modern, bland cityscape...all tall, mirrored buildings, it makes for an oppressive visual...and "old paris" is only fleetingly glimpsed in relfections on the buildings...old paris is ghost-like, emphemeral, almost completely absorbed into the monolithic row of corporate buildings...
Posted by: M | June 07, 2012 at 07:07 AM