We Belong Together – Paris, France – Somewhere In Time Weekly Travel Photo.

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We Belong Together – Louvre – Paris, France

Going through some of my travel photos I have come to realize (more than at any other time in my life) that I love photographing people. I looked through hundreds of old negatives last week and I realized this has been a running theme in almost all of my photos. It’s the relationships between people (or lack thereof) that I am fascinated with.

Spatial relationships, how people interact and what happens to the space in between – is it lost? How does it exists? Does it exists the same with people as it would without? How much does the emotional relationship to ourselves and to others determine the space that surrounds us? What are all the things that we don’t see? This is one reason why photography is so fascinating to me. It can stop that moment, freeze it, allow you to see things again that you remember so clearly. The feelings you remember when you are driving alone in your car or riding on a train – to me that’s a large part of what photography is.

We were walking out of the Louvre when we remembered we had to return our headphones. We went back to return them and as we turned around to leave I saw this perfect light just streaming through the famous glass triangle and into the main lobby of the Louvre. It was stunning. Then there were the people – some exhausted after a long day of looking at paintings, others excited to be in the Louvre, others just milling about probably deciding what section to visit next. We were riding the escalator down and I remember standing there a bit in awe just looking at the people buzzing around in the light and the beauty of it all. I took a couple quick photos because I had to. It was too pretty not to.

So why two photos for today? I’m showcasing these photos together because they are actually the same two images. Each image has 2 images within it – the same two. The BW one is processed like an HDR photo, the color one is done as a multiple exposure. I honestly can’t decide which one I like best and I thought of using one for this week and once for next week BUT since they have some of the same players in them it just seems fitting that they go together. These photos were a happy mistake. I only combined them out of curiosity because I wanted to run a test on an HDR process. But I kinda fell in love with them – independently and as a pair.

I love the people, the shapes, the stairs that magically end on what looks like a second floor (but it’s not) in the color photo. I love the little dots of red and the little dots of green that carry your eye whimsically around the photo – I didn’t create those colors, I just got lucky. One of my favorite things about it though are the two ladies in the bottom right hand corner and the fact that they are standing perfectly in the shadow of two people riding on the escalator in front of me from the 2nd image. Really it’s perfect- I don’t think I could’ve planned it that way if I had tried.

The BW photo features the same two ladies in the corner but the HDR processing cleaned up most of the ghosting from the other image so all of the people are more defined and have their own space. I love the look of the stairway and I love the oversized people to the left of the stairwell. They just, strangely, line up perfectly with the people from the original image. It’s almost unnoticeable that they size ratio is totally wrong until you look at it for a second.

It’s like magic to me that the photos have the same people in them but almost everyone looks completely different in each image. It’s the space between the people that changes the emotions in the photos. They look and feel completely foreign from one another yet – they belong together.

*Please remember all photos on this website are copyrighted and property of BeersandBeans.com, NarikosNest.com & Bethany Salvon. Please do not use them without my permission. If you want to use one of them please contact me first because I do love to share and I would be flattered. Thanks!

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