A photo has a great feature – it triggers a whole series of images, emotions, feelings, even smells! that ‘unzip’ in your mind once you see it. That’s a great thing about YOUR OWN photos, unfortunately, we still didn’t find a way to transfer our exact memories and feelings about something to another person. So, it’s the best and the worst thing – different minds provide us with various interpretations of one and the same object or concept, or situation and it’s actually curious but, on the other hand, so many possible interpretations can sometimes be critically misleading.
This is one of my favourite photos, called ‘Wineglass’ (I wonder why). And like some songs, that make you remember the situation when you heard it up to the smallest detail, I remember that it was a summer day right before the sunset and the clover field before the St. Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg, I remember running towards it, hurrying to take off my shoes, and the feeling of the cool clover leaves touching my bare feet, I remember the people around me and the music I was listening to at that very moment. It seems amazing how so many things can fit in a tiny snap-short moment.
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