Noumena
There are numerous reflections of myself in this photograph. First, and most obvious is my shadow, cast upon my friend Shawn. Secondly is the main reflection on the surface of his lens which is backlit by the sun. There are some three other reflections of my silhouette within the interior of the lens echoed about within the circle at smaller size. Those are the literal, evident reflections of myself. Within the latent image on his film there is a theorhetical image, which might or might not have ever been developed. And finally there is the reflection of myself that I leave on many of the more advanced students who pass through my classes. But, uet, as I realize this, the visual metaphor would imply here that while my student here is pointing right at the light, I am but a filter, or maybe an obstacle around which the true light of photography might bend. Or rather, maybe I too am just a reflection of the darkness which is used to control light itself.
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