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Under the Bean
Photography is described by mathematics. It is a story of apertures and shutter speeds and ISO. There is a relationship – a rate of change that happens to be constant.
Calculus tells us about rates of change. With your eye, or with a camera, you can see how curves slope and change, you can explore the negative spaces by walking under the bean. You can sit down and drink a latte under the bean, or chat with your best friend. Play candy crush with a stranger a million miles away. You can walk through, pause underneath and look up at your own reflection — stretched wider here, shrunken there.
When you go through your photos later that day, you won’t give a thought for the mathematics of photography, for the calculus of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, but it is there in every sweep and curve.
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