A photographic investigator is never being visited by spirits of past or future. Instead she is revisiting past or future dimensions, since her assignments are mostly inter-dimensional and usually they involve time displacements, which are energy depleting, as I have explained many times. Plastic Christmas stars and glitter were completely overshadowed by genuine smiles, human joy and sparkling eyes in this Christmas eve’s of 2017 accidental photographic investigation. The subject’s name remains unknown but her joy infiltrated space, time and dimensional barriers.
Everybody knows about the meaning of Christmas or the Christmas spirit... And while a photographic investigator relies heavily on these great values -obviously for attracting minimum hostility during her festive photographic investigations- what gives her the greatest joy and sense of accomplishment, is, what in the photographic investigation dialect is called the spinning of Christmas or the Christmas spinning. Which is a kind of spinning energy around people or situations that are apparently without interest and which can only be detected by the lens. The sense of satisfaction comes from the fact that while the photographic investigator was submitted to a sometimes slow torture trying to pretend that she relates or that she is interested in her subjects -who most of the time feel equally weird about her too- the Christmas spinning comes to give a different Christmas meaning to what would otherwise be a waste of time.
Sometimes a photographic investigation goes sideways… There is no reason to feel bad. You can always catch some breathtaking, unanticipated shots of a fading, rising or setting sun.
It is amazing how some of my subjects naturally glow with that light. I love them, not only because they make me happy, but also because this warm, natural christmas light is perfect for photos. No flash needed, ever!
