Strong wind and rain

This was back at the end of August, but I’ll show it now. I spent a long time thinking about whether to post these photos, and I decided I needed to overcome my laziness and show them. There was a strong wind, and I decided to capture it using a long exposure. Everything that moved became blurred.

I was prompted to publish these photos by my reflections and an attempt to understand a photographic image not as a fragment of memory, but as a slice of time.

From the point of view of eternalism, where all times exist simultaneously, photography tears out a slice of time and makes everything visible from the entire general flow.

This is a fragment of reality, frozen and flattened into two dimensions, where everything is still literally alive. In the block universe, that moment hasn’t passed; it still exists.

A photograph differs from a memory in that memory is a reconstruction of an image, where it is assembled anew each time and always in a different way.

And an image is a time stamp, a fixation of light particles, a physical footprint. This trace obeys the laws of physics that apply in the block universe.

It does not store the past, but is a part of space-time in which the past layer and the present touch.

Photography is not the past, it is still here, only in another layer. We cannot go back there, because consciousness moves in one direction, but the layer will never disappear.

If you look at a photo as a layer or a slice of one branch of reality, then a long exposure is a slightly thicker layer, but it's still one branch of reality...

The time interval becomes visible in a two-dimensional plane.

On a long shutter speed, information is accumulated about the sequence of states compressed into one frame.

Every moment of the reality branch is like a page of text, and a snapshot is a copy of one page. A long excerpt is ten pages passed through one sheet, where the letters appear through each other.

If we consider the picture as the key to the door-the time layer, then a long exposure is a bunch of keys...only here they are all intertwined and not available separately. Individually, I think this is a frame-by-frame video, where each frame can be taken as an independent picture and immersed in it.

...Everything seems logical, but it's also complicated at the same time.