Thanks a lot for elaborate sharing of your personal thought process Nilanjanji. This is indeed I expect from this forum and have no second thoughts about me thinking otherwise. I am always open to your thoughts
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Thanks for talking about various aspect pertaining to this image and deconstructing your thoughts as well as the image. Also, many thanks for pointing to Prabudhha Dasgupta's work. If you can share a link or two it would be great.
Coming to my thoughts:
1. Until I deconstructed the image, I don't think anyone would have noticed the middle frame. Isn't it?
2. Had I just posted the image as is without trisecting it, then for me and for most of the 'photographers' it would have been:
a. Just another landscape image.
b. Just another landscape image, converted to B&W
c. I would have got comments like - "interesting play of light", love the clouds , interesting composition etc.
Intent of deconstruction:
I saw the image as is after final processing, something was really lacking w.r.t presentation. Secondly, color image is as interesting as B&W as these are painted mountains. Finally, when I saw it in 3 pieces, every frame had its imporance :
Frame 1 - Interesting cloud patters, Frame 2 - Light on the pristine snow, Frame 3 - a perfect foreground, middle ground, background composition. Overall all aspects of LS genre of photography was covered for me. Above all, when I print each of the 3 frames 20x30 or 40x60, the inquisitive nature of human mind to "actually" explore individual frames would be more than a single bland frame - hopefully it kicks in here.
Finally, in a nutshell I felt this would make the viewer's thoughts stop for a while and would think about every frame, than, just stepping forward after watching it for 10 seconds.
What do you think?