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Timeflow
This was a hypnotic view, being there. I was seating on the grass with some friends, and we are were having a good time, under the trees. It was a pretty good moment, and many of us had never talked to each other despite we knew each other since a while ago.
So as we were talking, I went absent and laid on the grass, and what I saw was pretty much what you can see on the picture. When I look at it, actually, somehow I get the feeling that the clouds are moving between the trees like in a corridor of sorts.
To make it more dreamlike, I barely added some blur to the picture. Just a tiny bit, so the leaves would still be contrasting against the sky and clouds.
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Reach
I think I got lucky with this shot, I had been around this beach for a while, and since I laid eyes in this place I had expected to be able to get this image I had in my head. Our boat finally came, and as they were cleaning it, we were told it would be a matter of minutes before we had to leave, so I started walking around again, and this image I had in my head just came to me, but moving faster than I expected.
So I ran, taking pictures on the move, then crouching and shooting, running again, taking shots standing, crouching, getting myself into the water, and finally, just before the boat touched land, I got this shot, pretty much the one in my head, even the fisherman is almost posing in the way I expected him to. It was also hard because, as you can probably see, there was another boat coming right behind that I didn't want in the picture... Actually, just the stick poking in kind of bothers me the more I think about it.
Still, this is meant to be a romantic view of our hardworking people and a more simple way of life, I didn't fool around too much with the settings, most of it is in the composition, it's what it was meant to be.
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Fate
As I took this picture, we were drawing close to our destination, less than an hour into the pacific, and the point this time is to illustrate this feeling of direction among an unpredictable sea that extends on every direction.
The intent of direction is illustrated by the stick going out of the boat, which sort of points to the clouds and the island to the left. I could have make the composition so that the boat seemed to aim directly at these things, but that was not the point. I know I hardly ever find myself zooming right onto target. Serendipity is a close friend, fortunately.
I did have to raise the contrast levels to make the cloud visible, and toy around with the sharpness to make the sea look, well, sharp, hard to get across, though I did wanted to keep the cloud as more of an ethereal presence.
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Abandon
What I'm trying to convey here is the sense of this small, beaten-up boat, standing defiantly to the endless sea, apparently all by itself.
I don't want to get overtly elaborate, but it's meant to be a paradox on ourselves, petty race mankind, rising each day to affront an often less than pleasurable world, which is why the edges look like they do, as darkness circling our little guy, who regardless of everything is still there.
I also played a little with the contrast and sharpness, to make clearer the point of the boat being the good guy, and the darker environment the uncontrollable, unpredictable, and sometimes even downright evil forces that form our surroundings. Still, I didn't want the boat to look flawlessly white, we might be the good guys in our own stories, but no one of us is actually 100% good. Also, I still wanted the chips, dirt and flaws of the boat to remain noticeable. We carry our own baggage of defects, wounds both emotional and physical, and so does Mr. little boat on the picture.
I hope some of that comes across, though. Otherwise I just took a photo of a beaten-up boat... And a couple minutes away from you.
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Malecon
This is more of an experiment, really. I tried to do some candid photography, but incorporating the landscape and the flag. The composition is based on the thirds rule, with the stone on the left and the flag on the right as the reference points on a horizontal axis, and the sea level and the malecon as the references on a vertical one.
So the intention is both to capture the dynamic of this traditional place in Mazatlan, while also showcasing the natural beauty of the place. Does it work or does it fail at both ends?
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