King of the Delta Photo

Berlinmeineliebe, aka Lucía (which is a beautiful Spanish name, strong one) is some amateur photographer I know because we share a friend. We moved in the same bohemian-literary circles (lol) and eventually we discovered our photo-side, quite easily because we don’t actually hide it.

I don’t think she has still found her photographic voice, but she’s aiming to, and the way she’s moving towards it makes me feel quite proud. She’s got an eye for the general feeling of the photo, but avoids studying the most technical part of it -besides the elementary lighting, composition, etc-. However, the girl’s one of the best party-out-of-control photographers I’ve ever seen:

This is an AWESOME lomography by her. It drives me crazy. I think she would have enjoyed portraying the beatniks, that’s for sure. She deserves it. That picture didn’t mean to follow no rules but the ESSENTIAL one: be attractive to the eye, get a feeling, capture it and project it on the watcher. That’s it. This Friday I’m going to her first photo exposition in Madrid. How cool is that.

I myself, when trying to get composed a nice photo, try to forget about the rules in order to respect them in an instinctive way. This may be hard to understand –or may not-, it has something to do with the MUSHIN concept of martial arts, that is, the famous “free your mind”. The Golden Spiral, for example. I didn’t planned to get this here:

Yet it is. The rules are no laws, neither guidelines. They just make your photo good if you’re naturally following them, not if you’re trying to fit your bad photo into the rule of thirds. It’s like wearing a jacket too small for you. If the photo asks you for symmetry or breaking the Golden Spiral or whatever, do it. Probably you are following another rule that you just forgot.