“Busy Birds.” Hanno Stolberg.
By Paul Goldfinger, Photo editor, Blogfinger.net
I found this image at the Leica Fotographie International online. It was their “Photograph of the Week.”
It reminds me of our recent comment to the Grove’s “Art on the Porch” regarding blurriness in some of my images including one from Halloween which they will post.
I know nothing about this photographer other than my admiration for this photo. You would not find this picture in an instructional book on how to do photography. Stolberg has taken a basic scene of a small boat and he has found an engaging tableaux starring light and color, and nothing is as you might expect.
It is a wonderful surprise without sharp focus, precision exposure, precise color, sharp focus (blurry) or a predictive story. It is a photograph that invites studying without intellectual analysis.
After all, photography, at least the kind I admire and emulate, is usually about story telling. And the story is told not only with a particular subject, but also with emotion, expressed by color and light which are components that we all respond to in real life, and Stolberg just tells his story in his way; after all, he is a photographer.
Do you like it? Maybe some will and others won’t, but that’s art.
Here’s a recent link on Blogfinger discussing a case of the “blurries.”
And, like music or poetry, and like other art forms, photographers can dedicate their work. I think I will do that more.
“For Emma”. by Bon Iver