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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Forty One: Ruins and wrecks: photographing the rusted, busted past > Phantom in the window, Chinese Camp, California, 2008
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20-MAY-2008

Phantom in the window, Chinese Camp, California, 2008

This house has been abandoned for a lot time. Huge weeds grow as high as its windows while a broken screen catches the light and forms it into a spectral figure. I moved close to the screen, layered the image with the arching strands of weeds, and allowed the phantom in the window to speak for itself.

Leica V-Lux 1
1/400s f/5.6 at 16.5mm iso100 full exif

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Phil Douglis15-Nov-2009 22:35
Thanks, JC, for appreciating the role of light and shadow here as an expression of age and time.
JCTomlin15-Nov-2009 05:54
Beautifully seen and wonderfully realized!
Phil Douglis08-Sep-2008 20:24
Thanks, Cyndy. Some will see a window screen. I have a hyperactive imagination, so I saw a face in that screen. The more active our imaginations, the more we might see, and the more we may have to put into our images.
Guest 08-Sep-2008 17:38
I love how you see these delightful visions. What a gift...
Phil Douglis28-May-2008 21:05
Thanks, Jenene, for noticing that my phantom figure is smiling at us. I did not want to mention that in my caption because I wanted my viewers to see whatever their own imaginations were able to perceive. But now that you've seen the smile, I must publicly agree. This is a happy phantom.
JSWaters28-May-2008 04:53
Image making and fantasies - a perfect description of what I'm always trying to do. (I only wish I'd thought of it first!) I'm glad to see your phantom smiling at you Phil - maybe he's just happy somebody finally noticed him!
Jenene
Phil Douglis27-May-2008 19:33
Image makers do tend to have overactive imaginations. We see stuff like this because we tend to fantasize a lot. I tried to emphasize what I saw in that screen and how I felt about it, by how I exposed, framed, composed and exposed the image. Thanks, Tim.
Tim May27-May-2008 18:04
It takes the mind of an image maker to see the face in the light and shadows and to make a picture that shows that phantom to us.
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