Photographic excursions or travel in general is a great way of seeing something new. I’ve seen asphalt, shadows, stairs, and white paint before but not in this composition, which I discovered away from home.  When shooting I just keep looking and pressing the shutter, post processing is when I evaluate the subject for relevance to my way of seeing.  It is this evaluation of the image, when I ask myself, “What can I add or change to make this MY image”.  Without adding my thought process to the works I don’t feel that I’m doing anything more that just framing a rectangle around a subject that I happen to encounter.  After all the camera focuses and pretty much comes up with the exposure, P on the camera stands for professional right?

So I like going into B&W mode for abstracting the image further away from reality and doing diptychs is a great way to add visual interest and/or story content.  It’s like math, the addition of another image is greater than the sum of its parts.