Photo of the Day

Sunset in Harlem
Originally uploaded by Zanalee

Today's photo of the day is of the sky after the sun setting as seen from my apartment window. I used the camera app, Cameramatic which I found out about after harassing a poor young man in Italy whose acquaintance I made one morning as we were frantically dashing to download new hipstamatic lens on the FB page last year.

We were both posting that we were having problems and ended up trouble shooting together. He's a fantastic photographer, whose photos, for me, have a lot of intensity and weight. We became contacts on flickr and I also follow his work on the Instagram app. Recently he started using this filter and I nearly flipped for every photo I saw that he took using it.

I don't really know how to explain it, but this composition really makes me feel something, something sort of melancholy and nostalgic but not in a manipulated way. The simplicity of the over contrasted silhouette, grainy over processed due tones and film sprockets. It really makes me think of a simpler time i guess. Simple and familiar. I grew op in a house of photography and this is what it felt like.