Unfinished Symphony.

[Pappadi]

It may seem ridiculous that this view reminded me of Schubert’s Eighth Symphony - Unvollendete.
I saw here a vivid harmony of an orchestral-type tone which was hard to ignore! I listened for a long time, for the two solo violinists to finish!
The warmth and the golden sunlight were like the melody on top of the intimate murmur of the strings.

[Sergio M.]

I can't say that I'm familiar with Unvollendete, but I do like the shapes and patterns created by the objects amidst the gold.

Sergio

[FrankMi]

If you are interested Sergio, you could click on this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aovFfAAVqJA and listen to the music while you ponder Ramachandran's lovely image. I might help you to connect the two.

[Ken Curtis]

Hi Ramachandran.

Perhaps the symphony and the image are unfinished. In the photo, I do not know what you want me to look at. My eyes keep moving around the image and never land anywhere. Perhaps to finish the image, you should add a main element of interest where my eyes can stop and appreciate the music.

[Pappadi]

Thank you, Sergio.

[Pappadi]

Thank you Frank, that was really nice!

[Pappadi]

Hi Ramachandran.

Perhaps the symphony and the image are unfinished. In the photo, I do not know what you want me to look at. My eyes keep moving around the image and never land anywhere. Perhaps to finish the image, you should add a main element of interest where my eyes can stop and appreciate the music.

Thank you Ken, but this is one of the images I would like to use to express my idea of not using any one or many objects of interest "where your eyes can stop and appreciate." Why not think about an all pervading melody above a multi harmonious succession of tones? An overspread which can also be beautiful and meaningful too!
Regards.

[Wavelength]

I like the tone and mood of the image; yet i feel the objects are random and the borders cut through them; the situation is not understood; further i have never heard that music too... intuitive feelings may not always be conveyed

Regards

[IzzieK]

I play my piano everyday and play and love and am very familiar with Unfinished Symphony by Schubert, but I am bugged if I know what I am looking at here...coffee? spices? chocolates? or just patterns of whatever?

Sorry to be a bit rough...

[Pappadi]

I play my piano everyday and play and love and am very familiar with Unfinished Symphony by Schubert, but I am bugged if I know what I am looking at here...coffee? spices? chocolates? or just patterns of whatever?

Sorry to be a bit rough...

I didn't say this image or its content elements have any connection whatsoever with any music, especially in the sense you have tried to express. I wrote about my feelings when I was watching the scene through the eyepiece. It took about 2 or 3 minutes for me to frame the shot to my liking. All the time I was 'hearing' Unvollendete. And I was happy hearing that and watching those 'coffee,spices and chocolates,' the light and the subtle changes of colour. I stood there many minutes more till the light changed drastically and the scene turned dull (to me.) The music and the scene lingered on some more time. I was surprised when suddenly Schubert, whom I hadn't listened recently, came to my mind! But I think I understood it as I continued watching the scene.

It is a pity indeed that this image is unable to communicate those feelings of mine to others. I was conscious of this limitation and that was why I wrote those lines, in the hope that someone would hear,if not Schubert's, a melody and enjoy the image. Every creation is a victim of such a limitation. It is the masters who have had their creations overcome that. Lesser mortals like I need to explain and in many words too, and many a times in vain!

I don't play any musical instrument, but listen to music and love it. I belong to a society the music of which is mainly designed on melody. And so, or may be so, I am inclined to see and hear melodies wherever they appear including when acute harmonies do!

I am not surprised that you, who play a piano and are familiar with Schubert, didn't connect this image with music. That underpins the importance of "a main element of interest" as pointed out by Ken Curtis above. But it also proves, at least for me, that my belief that photographers face a challenge to create away from particularity and towards more generality - a challenge painters once had faced and won - is right.

Thank you and regards.

[Pappadi]

I like the tone and mood of the image; yet i feel the objects are random and the borders cut through them; the situation is not understood; further i have never heard that music too... intuitive feelings may not always be conveyed

Regards

Thank you Nandakumar.
The image was shot at a construction site from the top of an adjacent building. I chose those elements as best as I could so that I thought I could convey a disturbed harmony. But then the Sun came in with a wonderful play of golden colour. That made a tremendous change to the scene I was looking at through the eyepiece. It was a pleasure to see the scene falling in to a beautiful harmony and start playing a music I knew well. Fantasy? Or just plain and simple imagination? Choose as you will. But that is one of the ways Nature opens her micro windows!
I framed it such a way that the borders cut through some of the objects, for I thought it would extend them beyond their solidity.
Regards.