Paris: When the Pieces all Fall Together

To maximize my short two day stay in Paris I decided to wake up early and catch the sunrise along the Seine. Every once in a while I take a photograph where everything seems to magically fall into place, and this was certainly one such happy occurrence.

I framed the photo using the bridge under which I was standing as well as the railing along the bank of the river, whose shadow created a cool pattern on the sidewalk. As a pair of runners approached me, a pair of swans simultaneously overtook me in the water, creating a theme of two’s. Pont Alexandre III, the ornate bridge in the background, provides a nice backdrop.

I will post a few more photos on the website as soon as I edit them.

First Blog Post!! And Why to Sweat the Small Stuff

I like to think that every photographer develops their own stomping ground- a handful of go-to places one knows they can go to and emerge with a few interesting photographs every time. For me, two such places are upstate New York, where I used to go almost every weekend up until college and Prague, Czech Republic, where I see my family a few times a year. However, about a year ago I began to feel that I was running out of photographic ideas in both. How can one redefine meaning in a place they have been to dozens or hundreds of times?

Although upstate New York (rural/nature) and Prague (urban/architecture/historic) are fundamentally different, I found a solution to my problem that worked equally well in both places- I started hunting for the smaller details. In New York, I moved away from framing the landscapes and broad farmland I was overly familiar with to shooting an individual leaf cracking in the wind or a series of fence posts extending towards the horizon. Suddenly, a whole new world opened up to me at the macro level. Using the same technique in Prague, my focus shifted from the sea of red-bricked roofs in the old part of the city to a reflection in a single window, or from a typical crowd of eager tourists crossing a bridge to a single figure walking down an empty cobble street.

One can find the deepest meaning in the small stuff so start looking!

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A reflection from a door at Hlavní Nádraží (Main Train Station) in Prague