The Park of My Imagination

My favorite park is called Circus Park. It's a small park and reminds me of Maryon Park from the movie Blow-up. Blow-up is my favorite movie. It's directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, a famous Italian director. I'm not sure if I'm right but I think Blow-up is Antonioni's second color film after Red Desert.

However, for me, it was the first color film by this director that I have seen. Previously I had seen The Night and Adventure, which were in black and white.

The film is about a photographer in 1960s London when mod subculture was all the rage. This subculture focused on fashion and music and the fashion photographer was already a major figure.

The photographer in the film, already fed up with the world of fashion, professional models and aspiring models, leaves the studio and walks through the aforementioned park to relax and unwind.

In the park, he notices a couple in love and the instinct of a photographer, who can sense something special, makes him follow and photograph them.

He is noticed by the woman in that couple and she comes up to him and asks insistently for the camera footage. His insistence and the woman's somewhat desperate manner arouses his interest.

The photographer goes back to his studio and develops the film and then starts enlarging the photos. So he notices that he has actually witnessed a murder.

Blow-up also means enlarging photos!

That's what I did with some photos. Influenced by this movie. In the film, several successive enlargements were made and the enlargement was reached.

Now I have to state that the circus park bears little resemblance to the park in the movie but I like to think it does. The first and biggest difference is that the park in London doesn't have a pond as the Circus Park does!

The only similarity is that both parks are small and surrounded by blocks and housing.

The photos I put here have nothing to do with the movie Blow-up, I mean they have a small one, I enlarged a few photos...

The idea to refer to the film came to me when I thought about it and wondered what the film would have been like in black and white. So I used the photos of the park in Bucharest that I think looks like Maryon Park.

Maybe also because I will never get to this park I tried to create the atmosphere in my favorite park, with a black and white that I think would fit the story in the film!

This is my entry for the #monomad challenge"

HiveBloPoMo - Day 29

This is my attempt to post every day in November!