Cloudy With a Chance of Buildings

I love photographs that use the aspheric elements of a lens, a narrow field range and the angle of view to produce creative and, sometimes, unsettling effects.

The human visual system is believed to use both size and perspective cues to interpret the relative mass and comparative distance of subjects in a photo. Seeing certain perspectives without understanding relative size changes can be hugely confusing and disorienting to the human eye. This happens when we limit the field of view to a narrow perspective and we deny the sense of peripheral vision. The visual appearance for the viewer is that the background can overwhelm or compete with the foreground even though they are great distances apart.

The top of this building and the clouds are 2,500 feet apart. Yet, our eyes see them as being much closer together.

It is quite fun to go out at lunch, point your camera high and see what the brain makes of it all. Looking up is always a good thing.

Your response to my image yesterday was quite overwhelming in a positive way. You are all way too generous and kind to me. I sincerely believe that.

Sorry to be posting and run, but I have a an early flight to Manhattan in the morning.