Searching After Wildness - journals of a photographic artist

I was reviewing my recent photographs from the French Quarter, and noticed that almost all of the images depict people interacting with either a door or a window. Doors and windows, along with images of cats, lighthouses, and lone trees are classic cliches of photography. But cliches become so because there is an inherent draw to these subjects. Windows and doors are portals into and out of intimate places, opportunities, adventures, temptation and healing. They can be guarded, left, opened, closed, and ignored.

Just because the subject matter is overused, doesn’t mean it’s no longer useful. There is more to a cliched subject than the cliched presentation. Look deeper.