Sloppy and accidental photography

I absolutely love sloppy photos.

Whether the white balance is terribly off, its blurry, overexposed, or the subjects not even in the frame; I just love pictures that have obvious flaws. Often, the more blatant the flaw the more attracted I am to it. I have this old Samsung flip phone, it’s camera is a piece of crap. But of the pictures I’ve taken with it, the ones I find most fascinating are the ones that I can’t explain. I absolutely love looking at the pictures in my phone to find that I’ve taken some without knowing. Random blurs, shadows, and streaks of colour that I find so fascinating. I spend more time staring at these, and trying to find how and where such a fortuity took place, than I do looking at most of my well taken photographs. Don’t get me wrong, a well taken photo is a well taken photo and each tells its own fascinating story. However, as I grow as a photographer I find myself more and more fascinated by the photo’s I can’t explain, than the ones I took the time to perfect.

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