Selected Excellence: Lie and Loneliness

Today, our regular section about SY Hsu has a monologue given by Hsu himself about his more sentimental view on photography.

By SY Hsu (edited by Nevin):

" TO ME , PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE MOST HONEST LIE IN THE WORLD . "

We all see consequences happen in our lives. Every choice brings a different result whether you like it or not. It is hard to tell if it will be positive or negative until life's end.

"That’s the reason why I take photos," I said.

Photography is a large part of my life. Like an animal searching for its quarry, my desire for photography guides me to struggle to survive. I scream in silent darkness, shout at secret moments, stand in a quiet world; and I am like every part of me wanting to find the perfect attachment, every single picture framing a moment of my life. While I am trying hard to construct my own pictures, I am buried in my own creations.

There, interestingly, I have found my loneliness.

"If you can understand, that’s because you are aware of loneliness ," I said.

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By Nevin: There is a cure for the loneliness of a photographer who is a bachelor, which is love. Unfortunately, life is so guided by chances that one can get the cure or not at all only by chance. When the chance in life allows Hsu to only carry a torch for the one giving him butterflies in his stomach, he may well think that love does not really conquer all.

His dream of love is masked behind the hazy glass panel, which also hides the story of a secret admirer yet to be told.

(Publish with courtesy and copyright of SY Hsu; all photos by Hsu)

Comments

A Real Hero

(Grip On Reality: This photo was taken on my way to work. I was walking past trucks parking on a cul-de-sac when the ropes caught my attention. The light was right, the colour was right and the criss-crossing pattern was perfect and I held up my GX200. People passing by checked me out and wondered what could be made out of such a boring scene. To me, the fun in photography is that the photographer makes something interesting out of what is not obvious to most at the scene. The ropes tied in knots somehow reminded people I know who are in the grip of the recession) You must have also known a friend or two, or even yourself, being baffled by the spiral downturn of the economy. Bank went bankrupt and the rich was faced with a shrinking wealth. A friend of mine has just had his salary cut by over 10% and some of his colleagues started to be shed. But, wait. Was this done really for the sake of continuing the business? Or is there a factor or greed in it? I wonder whether the

New Low Prices

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Eye Contact

(Leica D-lux 5) The digital era may make it easier to end up with fave shots. Even lousy photos may be turned likable after a few clicks in the post-processing workflow. But if digital advancement or amendments have any bearing on the cultivation of personal style, no photographers will need to discover his or her own photographer’s eye. Undoutedly, this is out of the question. Only with a trained photographer’s eye can we give a thinking gaze and capture an eternal moment, in our unique style. Style is the soul of a great photo. A few posts have been written in GXG to touch on the topic of photographer’s eye. Instead of finding an answer, which would require academic discussions, the posts are intended to give my general reflections and spark interests in moving towards further exploration of the topic. The posts can be viewed after the links: 1) Photographer's Eye: Storytelling 2) Photographer's Eye: Little Show of Observing 3) Photographer's Eye: Sight-Worthy 4

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