Well, since I am not a terribly trendy person in general and in fashion in particular, there is only one trend that I could comment on: Photography. Being a photographer I am surrounded by lots of fabulous and extremely talented fellow photographers. As such I am seeing beautiful photography on every social media platform or blog every day, multiple times. And lately these are the types of images I have seen over and over:
Bokeh of light spots, but no focus point at all. I am guilty, too. These are two of the very few photos of this kind I have in my collection. And I like them, a lot. And I like a lot of the others, too. But there are so many that it almost seems to be the goal to have a totally out of focus photo. Not true. A photo does not have to resemble reality at all. Yes, being documentary was and is it’s first and prime reason, however then there is art. And in art, well, you can do whatever your inspiration tells you. But please, don’t let it be so much of a blur.
And also, subdued color photography – again, it is an artist’s style to have very dreamy, light and soft colored, sometimes – in big parts – blurry photographs. And there are quite a few very beautiful ones that speak to me, too. Heck, I love to blur out lots of background – love it! But I guess, I am just seeing too many of these faded, pseudo-vintage ones for my taste.
And since this is a personal question, these are the two trends 2014 that I would love to see less of. Not disappear, because, after all, they are beautiful and are part of our artistic experience, but…
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