What’s in a picture?

A picture’s worth a thou­sand words. Behind gifted eyes, is a vision, a gen­tle whis­per from the heart, an artist’s soul. Like the deaf­en­ing silence in a vibrant dream,

…every pic­ture tells a story with a dif­fer­ent point of view.

When the mobiles take over

Photograph by Will Wiriawan, June 26th, 2009

The above image was taken with a cell­phone, so did a dozen or so images in the lat­est Lens blog feature:

None of his cell­phone pic­tures have been pub­lished in the news­pa­per. His aim is not to win Canon-carrying pro­fes­sion­als over to the Motorola E815, already an ancient relic in the con­stantly churn­ing mobile land­scape. Rather, it is to escape — how­ever briefly — what he calls the “megapix­el­ma­nia” of con­tem­po­rary pho­tog­ra­phy, in which every aspect can be rig­or­ously and tech­ni­cally controlled.

Cellular Obscura via Lens Blog — NYTimes.com

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