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I love photography's "wow cool" effect of freezing and decontextualizing visual elements that might not otherwise pull a second glance. Steam for instance or smoke, reflections, liquid, air-borne objects--all can move from mundane to magical rendered still, 2D and boxed in. Of course this magic all too quickly becomes (already is) cliche. But my point is, the "wow cool" effect is damned cool anyway, and its a compliment to the camera (albeit maybe not the totality of grubby shutter bugging operators*) that its such a cliche making machine.

* Myself included of course. And although its sometimes disturbing to see hoards of people shielded from an actual view by cell phones and digicams, I still love a culture transfixed by a crude mimesis.