Optical aberrations
Unbridled possibilities
Employ abstraction
The Helios 44 lens has the ability to produce swirly bokeh in certain situations when the subject and background distances are just right.
“The combination of mechanical vignetting, astigmatism, and field curvature creates the swirl.” – Dusty-Lens
Pre-conceptual
Physical world
Projection impression
Optical elements can be arranged to bend light with precision.
“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.” – Victor Hugo
Present moment
Perceptual field
Surface contact
Approaching various physical contingencies is always first an opportunity for aesthetic experience.
“The object is made determinate as an identifiable being only through a whole open series of possible experiences, and exists only for a subject who carries out this identification.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Original vitality
Actual autonomy
Ultimate evidence
Further defining the Helios lens optical potential, here red berries are in dual vortex optical windows within a swirling bokeh.
“On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels.” – Charles Dickens
Subtle color
Fine texture
Lake shore bend
On every walk around ocean lake, I pause and admire the colors and textures of this spot.
“There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.” – Edward Abbey
Duel vortex
Decent distance
Helios special
The Russian Helios 44-2 lens creates awesome bokeh in a swirling circular pattern, perfect for places that already possess an enchanted ambiance.
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” – Roald Dahl
Red berries
Thorny plant
Lakeside growth
Transitional areas are almost always full of interesting entities.
“Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.” – Shannon L. Alder
Laws of light
Generate perspective
Mass object integration
Certain locations along the way slowly divulge and revel themselves as worthy aesthetic subjects, emphasizing released sensual pleasure.
“And as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sensible reality
Extensive becoming
Definable essence
Working with a diverse set of optics, each photographic encounter builds on the past and contributes to the future.
“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Description consistent
What is observed
Evidence conclusion
Aesthetics is a recurrent exercise in delimiting the margins of certainty.
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.” – Ursula K. Le Guin