I thought I would take this opportunity to post some photos of Paris, but no matter where I looked, I found very few. I know that the reason is that I don’t have any particular attachment to Paris, so I don’t take photos there, let alone go there unless I have to. I did have photos of Montparnasse, which has almost no Parisian scenery, but I couldn’t get back to Brittany from work because the trains stopped running for the ridiculous reason that the rails had bent due to the summer heat, and I ended up wandering around the station with nothing to do. And so, I finally found this photo of Metropolitan. I thought the design would look good in monochrome, but for some reason I colored it myself.
(English text at bottom) いつ、なぜ、どこで、なぜ撮ったか分からない写真というものがある。この写真がまさにそれで、さっぱり思い出せない。 どこにでもあるいい加減な花の写真ではあるが、わざわざ残しておいたのだから、何か思い出なり考えなりがありそうなものだ。 ところが、じっくりと眺めてもみたが、「もしかしたら」なんて思うことも何ひとつない。どこかにバッタでも隠れているとか、緑の葉の影が面白かったとか、花のオレンジが光の中で美しかったとか、まあ何でも良いのだ。ひょっとして奥の光が面白かったのか? じゃあ、なぜ今回のFloral Fridayに選んだのかと言えば、目についたからである。客観的に見てはいけない類のものなのだろう。これを撮った時も、保存した時も、そして今回選んだ時も、何故か目についたに違いない。そこには、思い出も写真の出来も関係ないのだろう。おかげで今週のネタができたのだからOKだ。
There’s a photo where you don’t know when, where or why you took them. This photo is a perfect example of that, and I can’t remember anything. It’s just another photo of a flower you could find anywhere, but there would a reason why I took it. Just for puting some memory or thought behind it, I thought. However, even after looking at it carefully, there was nothing that made me think “maybe.” It could be anything, like a grasshopper hiding somewhere, or the shadow of the green leaves was interesting, or the orange of the flower was beautiful in the light. Perhaps the light in the background was interesting? Probably I had no reason. I just felt looking good?