New lens. 24mm prime. And a back yard that lost a couple of sick trees this fall. The view has changed a lot. This is another photograph I've taken many times. Each time I cite Stan Douglas. He recreated a scene from Vancouver's Hogan's Alley; a neighborhood that was historically a black neighborhood.
The Douglas image is CGI, or AI, or whatever you want to call it. It's not a real photograph. It's also slightly unsettling because there are no people in it and, even stranger, no vegetation in it. There's nothing living in it.
Even more unsettling is, it's perfectly exposed. I've seen it in person. The image is very large. I want to say it's at least 4' tall by 6' wide. And you put your face right up to it and the blackest of shadows are just barely black, and the brightest of lights are just barely white. No lost details. No blown details.
I didn't get that. But my image also has trees. Grass. No people though, not intentionally anyway.
The view feels different without the trees. We'll plant another tree in the spring. And the view will change again.
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