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Landscape is perhaps the most subjective of all photographic genres.  Having 'seen' a shot, landscape photographers go to great lengths to capture it at the right time of day and in conditions that will best show the character of the scene.  They are careful to choose the lens for the best angle of view and to choose the right camera position - all towards shooting that pre-visualised composition.

This series, called "Opposing Views", is a collection of diptychs in which the usual deliberate & subjective landscape process is used, but then questioned.

One of the shots in the diptych is the subjective view which as usual is chosen, previsualised, planned and managed by the photographer.  But the other shot is the opposite - it is a view captured by rotating the camera through 180 degrees, so that the photographer then captures the scene behind, no matter what is there, no matter how it looks.  In this shot, the photographer has no choice; no composition, lens, view angle nor camera position to decide upon.  It's the opposing view - the landscape behind you.

It's left to the viewer to decide which may be the subjective view and which may be the opposing view.

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