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Symmetry

By  Michael Isles 2022

The great American photojournalist and documentary photographer Dorothea Lange declared, "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see, without a camera".  This image, without comparing myself to Lange, is an example of what one can see when really looking… it's a fairly mundane building, but when one sees an abstract of it with light and reflections dancing off the windows, it transforms into something really worth capturing with a camera. 

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