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Dueling Beauty: Juxtaposition with @chris_mueller

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One reason Chris Mueller (@chris_mueller) wanted to move to Los Angeles was the light quality — “what happens late in the day, this golden sun,” he says. The 40-year-old dad, who owns a cold brew coffee company, is always looking for interesting juxtapositions while he is out walking or skateboarding.

“This neighborhood is turning into expensive homes and yet there’s a huge part of the population that isn’t changing at all. It’s this dueling beauty,” he says.

Inspired by photographer Robert Adams, Chris also composes his pictures thoughtfully — a discarded TV or a dinosaur statue where you might not even notice them. He says, “I’m trying to bring you here and show you some things. If you spend a minute, you can go deeper with this image.”

But Chris doesn’t always need to go far to find his subjects. Recently, seeing his daughter Carson on a swingset with a friend made him think about how kids are social creatures. “They’d swing past each other and smile, and it just hit that epic dimensional moment when things are happening. For me, just to shoot that was my way to engage them without physically talking to them or saying, ‘Wow, great!’ or ‘Go higher! That’s fun.’ Just peacefully take a couple photos, and that was my way to remember that moment.”

by via Instagram Blog