Boy in Red
Boy in Red
Defocus: The act or result of causing a lens to deviate from accurate focus.
The VFXY Photos theme for this week is “Defocus”, a subject I have explored many times and therefore both natural and challenging. Natural because I have so many images at hand to select from and challenging since I can only offer one.
I settled on this modernist and spartan composition of a boy in a red shirt walking past; seen in Santa Fe Plaza back in 2008. A craft fair was being set up in the square and the sunlit white tents of the booths simplify the background of the boy walking in the shade of the governor’s palace.
Our day trips to Santa Fe have always been photographically fruitful, with a higher proportion of peopled street scenes than is usually found in my shy person’s portfolio. Tourist locations are good opportunities for the easily embarrassed Gary Winogrand wanna-be; no one is much surprised or concerned with the camera pointed in their general direction. Stratford-On-Avon and Santa Fe have more in common than the weather and accent would lead you to believe. We return to New Mexico again this summer, staying near Taos but certain to spend at least a couple of days in Santa Fe.
You can see all the submissions to the current VFXY theme at /photos.vfxy.com/themes/.
