Learning to see things, from an alternative angle, to know, that sometimes, what you see, isn’t, what you get, translated…
Recalled as I’d first started, photographing the larger marine mammals, I’d, always, hoped for the photos to be clear, to come out perfectly. As I’d accumulated the experiences in photographing through time, even though, there were, more, and more opportunities, for me, to capture those moments of perfection in the photos, I’d started, felt like, I seemed to have been, photographing, the same things, repeatedly—later I’d, understood, this, is something that kept me “stuck” every now and then in what I’m doing.
Actually, the larger marine mammals I’d photographed on the high seas, they’re, a step-by-step method we have, of trying to decode their, behaviors, to understanding them better. And because I’d studied in the related majors, and so naturally, I’d, gone in, on the angle of biology, then, as I’d, met more and more of those who loved the seas, the larger marine mammals as I do, it didn’t matter what their backgrounds were, or if they’d, studied in the, related fields, they all have their own unique ways, to describe the oceans, and the larger marine mammals.
photo from UDN.com
In recent years, I’d, gone a step farther, started working with friends in the performance arts, music, and multimedia sects of expertise, and found, that in putting the sounds of the larger marine mammals on screen, into sounds; or that they were, sharing the information, the knowledge they’d, acquired on the subject matters, through the absorptions of the creators, and, meshed them in, to their own work, this coming and going exchange, the process of us, stimulating each other, the results were often, surprising to me!
That feeling was like Columbus, finding the New World, each and every time, as the discoveries were, made we were, all in awe, of how interesting, how intriguing the oceans are, and, we were all, re-introduced, to the oceans like it was the first time we’d, ever, encountered it. And this is why, there’s this “Orca Underneath the Stars” photograph that came into shape.
What are, these “stars” then? Bluntly stated, they were, the left over scales after a massive hunt for food by the orcas. It looked, very romantic on film, but, from the herrings’ angles, it’s more like, getting killed in a massive battlefield……………
So, what you see, is NOT, what you think you see, is what this is all about, and, it doesn’t, just apply to the goings on in the oceans, but on land as well, because, sometimes, we only see the surfaces of things, and not realized, that there are, the levels of depth we’d failed, to note underneath, and this article, I believe, is telling us, to look closer, to everything we encounter daily, to see if we can, discover something new in it, to train ourselves, to have, a different perspective on what we take for “normal” (whatever that means!!!).