Yesterday’s post reminded me of an observation I’ve made over the last few years.  Tastes vary widely, particularly in art.  I don’t mean just art art, but anything with visual appeal.

For example, look at this pic:

Lamps at Mandalay Bay

I took this picture last year (with my SLR, sorry) while attending the NAPP conference in Las Vegas.  Every room had these lamps and I just loved the way they looked.  Not in real life, mind you, but as objects in a photograph. The lamps are almost symmetrical, yet not quite.  Yet close enough. The shadows recede in a deep, glowing beauty.  Light case above creates a negative image of a shadow, which strikes my eyes as inverted hills, or odd valleys.  The posts on the lamps evoke the horns of a bull.  Again, inverted.

So I love this pic.  It really sings to me.  I showed it off – to friends, family, other pros… a total of one other person liked it.  That was it.

There is no moral to this post.  I don’t really care what other people think of the pic, just an observation on how one simple image can be so hard for people to see past.