Photography may be used to capture approximations to reality

There is a bit of thinking in photography ,especially in bringing about just that much light which will show things in a different perspective than what they appear usually in.Apparently the effort is towards running away from reality. How do we run away from reality ? Probably by thinking that the reality is much deeper than appears on the face of it. What if the perspective falsifies the reality and the art presents things in a perspective which only exists in the mind .Of course the obvious answer is that it does not make any difference and what you eventually see is the reality. We are not duty-bound to concern ourselves with reality as it exists and secondly having found the reality what do we do with it ? Thirdly we do not know that the reality as we see is in fact the reality that we are concerned with.

Having thought this way, I begin to think if I can find some approximations to truth while copying reality in its normal existence .For instance my figures become blurred and my background a different texture .Why do we relate to paintings more than we relate to photographs ? Probably we all believe that the figures in art should represent only the Idea and not copies of the reality .Of course at the back of our mind is the Platonic theory that art is twice removed from Reality in that it imitates reality which itself is an imitation of the Idea.

I have come across an interesting piece of freeware(http://www.fotosketcher.com) for editing your photos to bring about the effect of a painting .I have used this and found some lovely pictures have resulted out of the use without much effort.

In the following picture I have used the freeware: