“Elusory” 2017. By Susan Richman.  ©

LANG LANG playing a piece by Franz Liszt:  “Romance in E Minor.”

By Paul Goldfinger, Photography Editor at Blogfinger.net

Susan Richman is a photographer whose work is currently being shown at a New York City downtown gallery called Umbrella Arts, 317 E. 9th St.   The exhibit will be shown from October 4, 2017 to October 28, 2017.

About her work, Ms. Richman says,   “I am an interpreter of what surrounds me and the camera is my instrument of choice. It affords me a different way of seeing and a way to uncover what is unobserved.” (quote from her web site.)

I like this image, “Elusory,” because of the mysterious abstract portrayal of some red  berries, perhaps from a holly tree.  But they seem to be suspended in mid-air, and the colors help make the image successful. The bright light in the center adds energy to the photograph, suggesting some sort of abyss and adding motion to the berry branch.

As she says, it is a “different way of seeing.”

And, by the way, “elusory” is not a pretentious word here; it means evasive.

We obtained this image from Photograph Magazine.