Outside Our Window

I like this image a whole lot. It does two things that I find compelling in photography. It's revealing in the sense that it communicates an act of nuanced "seeing" in that it's more subtle than a portrait or mugshot of a plant. The photographer is showing me a detail he/she found visually interesting and is showing it to me.

Secondly, it's sincerely a photograph. The shallow depth of field and the choice of materials that show the peel-marks of the frame are an explicit acknowledgement that cameras "see" differently than human beings do. This is less obvious than it may sound. Even in black and white photography, the impulse to to document the human experience of seeing a scene, often typified by an expansive landscape with great depth of field remains strong. There is nothing wrong with those sorts of photographs but I find myself more and more drawn to images that do nothing to obscure the role of the camera as a visual intermediary.

I like it as well. I think Jstraw hit it on the head.

My favorite element is the richness of the light in the image.

Well done.