Park Güell and the giant burger

Park Güell #15. Barcelona, 2014

When I originally framed this image in my viewfinder a few weeks back, I was thinking mainly about the lines. I was striving for something a bit different–maybe tending slightly toward the abstract–something I hoped would be an alternative to the billions of other tourist photos made in this very spot. (But, as the saying goes: “It is easier for the photographer to pass through the f/32 aperture of his macro lens than for that same dude or dudette to make a truly original image of an oft-trampled, UNESCO World Heritage, tourist site.”)

After working on it in post, though, I realized that I had inadvertantly achieved my original goal by creating a giant, abstract, Frankenstein hamburger! Can you see it there in the right 2/3 of the photograph? You kind of have to let your eyes relax…just let yourself sink into the optical contusion (sic and sick!).

This opens up a whole new arena of possibilities as I try to incorporate this idea of the optical illusion into my “seeing”.