I've been thinking about art a lot lately, most of this year has been consumed in some way or another by it. I think it's because it stands so starkly in contrast with the mundane routine of my life. See, there's something magical that happens when I pick up a camera. I start to take in the world around me in a different way. I guage the light and the color of every aspect. I see with fresh, almost child like wonder, buildings and streets I pass through daily. And the world comes into focus through the viewfinder in a way that is unique.

Sometimes the light alone paints a picture of breathtaking beauty, and all I need to do is stop, compose a shot and breathe in the world around me. Others I need to calculate, tinker with the apeture and shutter, iso and film emulations. And almost certainly, in every moment I exist as artist behind the lens I find myself inextorably attached to the scene. Is what I see, the way I capture it, what everyone around me takes in as well? I feel as though I am creating something with my perspective if nothing more.

For every street I wander, who's lines and colors, shadows and vanishing points, seem oblique and mundane a thousand other people see it with fresh eyes by virtue of the simple act of creating that photo. And so many of those I hid away from view due to imperfections, afraid to show the stumbling jarring path that exists during the creative process. It is with that perspective that I bring this years submission to the town zine, a collection of photos shot on a Sony DSC-S85, all flawed in their own unique way, but beautiful in my own mind.

Art is, after all, a matter of perspective.

## Waiting

ISO: 100, fStop: f4, Shutter: 1/200

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## Invader

ISO: 200, fStop: f5.6, Shutter: 1/1000

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## Ramonas

ISO: 400, fStop: f8, Shutter: 1/400

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## Night Colors

ISO: 100, fStop: f2.3, Shutter: 1/3

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## Sentinel

ISO: 320, fStop: f2.3, Shutter: 1/30

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# About

Each one of these photos was run through viu, a terminal image viewer, and then screenshotted with scrot. All of these photos are in some way flawed; shot either over/under exposed, horribly out of focus, or compositionally bland when viewed in full resolution. By lowering the resolution to emphasize only color, line, and composition of the images they become interesting once again.

I struggle a lot, both as an artist and just in life in general, with constantly striving for perfection and feeling as though I fall short. All of these photos are a reminder that our perspecitve in life matters, and that there is beauty in the imperfect.

License: CC-BY-SA