when the world is upside down
the perspective gradually blurs
and it doesn't really make sense at all
then a lot is asked of your imagination
(from: imagery by Ronald Hofmeester)
I find images where the viewer has to look twice to realise what he/she/it is really seeing more interesting than "straightforward" images. For instance, I have long had the idea of photographing a flooded piece of forest from a strange perspective. Then you have to wait for a lot of rain like in recent years. The forest on the northern side of the Naardermeer is very suitable for this and close to where I live. Once I was photographing there, the flooded area turned out not to be big enough for what I had in mind. Actually, I wanted to climb a tree but I couldn't. In the end, I put my wide-angle lens on the camera and held it above my head with my arms extended. Checking what I had in focus and whether the image was sharp, I could not. I was shooting at random. Then it is nice to have a digital camera; that way I could check what the composition was and whether the image was in focus after each shot. Then I could try again afterwards.
Seeing art in nature, living a live full of wonder!
Ronald Hofmeester (1958) is a nature photographer and poet. All his life he has had a great fascination for nature. For years he has dedicated himself to increasing children's involvement with nature and the environment; as a teacher,..
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