have the car and my camera today. the following are just a sample of what my morning commute is like sometimes.
and this is my fairytale school in the woods
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The drive – drift pictures are cool in a documentary kinda way. I connect with them. I feel the air and the moisture. The big trees in the 2nd on hit me right away but then the conifers creep into the images and it feels like the west to me. Some might say Maine, I say west, northwest. They feel like studies or intuitive experiments just to see what happens and what it looks like as a photograph. Curious what the sign says in the background to the right of the dogs in the back seat of the car. Respond to the rising sun through the trees but only a dead person wouldn’t. Also like the building disappearing into the clouds. And the fairy tale school reminds me of UC Santa Cruz, Monterey CC, Green River CC, and Evergreen as I remember it. Very “Left Coast”. In UC Santa Cruz the students run through the redwoods and across hwy 1 to go surfing during lunch. Do they do that in boston or maine? Is that just a west coast thing? Anyway the last 4 images and fairy tale school bleed west coast and are beautiful. Are you driving and taking photos? Fun experiment. R. Adams writes about the guy who would take pictures while driving his car and standing up through the sun roof. He got a clearer idea of what he was shooting I guess. I think he would steer with his feet. I need to go read it again to be sure. Have you thought of that? Dye your hair and take pictures through your sunroof !!! take it easy, thanks for sharing the pics.
ReplyDeletethe image with the light peaking through the trees is moy bonita, love it! These are different from the stuff you have been doing, which I cant ever get enough of, love those night shots. But I think you have stumbled upon this day light stuff, keep with it.... I envy your surroundings....
ReplyDeleteyesterday was amazingly foggy...like walking in/breathing a cloud. it's not that intense most of the time, so yesterday was a treat!yes, that was the r.a. book where he talks about his friend hanging out the sunroof and driving with his feet. i had forgotten about that. i guess, i just figured since i've been trying to shoot every day on the bus and i wasn't on the bus...well, no reason to stop. except, i was driving the entire time i was shooting. which was fun. heavy dslr in right hand, steering wheel in left. most shots, i didn't look through the viewfinder, just pointed. trying to get better at shooting without looking - being able to see what the camera is going to see and get the focus right without looking. erika - its practice, right? you should see how many shots are of sky or the ceiling of my car! i have no idea where i'm going with these images. maybe, they're just going to be practice? maybe they're the beginning of something new? i hope they're more interesting/evoke more feeling than just straight documentary. i guess most days, i am so amused by this world where i live, that i'm finally trying to capture that flavor/the feeling. hopefully soon i'll be able to catch the crazy people out here, too! girls wearing undies on the outside of tights, cruising streets on old-school rollerskates protesting something, today. but, no camera on me.
ReplyDeletesign says "made in oregon" in the big white letters. red text says "old town" as the sign sort of denotes one edge of old portland. or at least that's what i've heard. i dunno, i'm not from here.
we're definitely not close enough to ocean to run to it from school. i wish. i hear the kids at evergreen name their trees on campus, too.
did ANYONE notice the piles of cut flowers lining the walkway in the left school image?
I just noticed those flowers, and I think its great to explore what the camera sees. I'm doing that too, I have tons of photos of the sky and the ground, and out of focus people. Ive moved back to hips shots something I did a lot of back in high school, they are fun because you dont know what your going to get at first and then you learn the ways of your lens, I think in many ways I still dont understand what my 35mm lens will give me, im not used to shooting at that range... hip shots and stuff in that vein is great and it allows us to explore, sometimes for me anyway I get bored with what im doing, we have to challenge ourselves.... but what I'm struggling with right now is my eyes, they dont want to allow me to focus, this is an ongoing issue and its becoming more of one I feel like...
ReplyDeleteI love your night work, but i think this is a nice direction, it seems very free and playful which is nice sometimes. the bottom three are my favorites, and that school looks really awesome... it makes me think up scenarios and stories in my head about what it would be like to be there
ReplyDeleteYour drive to work seems like a little dream, and look at that cutie school in the woods awwwwww. It must be a pretty inspiring place to shoot and work, sometimes I really wish that there wasn't so much noise and shit everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI love the light through the trees and the one under it are so beautiful. The light in the first makes it so magical but the subtle nature of the one under it is really powerful.
erika, i'm totally with you on the hip shots. been holding the camera to my belly a lot and just seeing what happens. i want to get better at using the zoom and maybe someday i'll manual focus it. ha! its nice to hear you're trying this out, too. what's up with them eyes? you've had that prob in the past. you need new glasses?
ReplyDeleteerin, it is a pretty cool drive in to school. and the setting of the actual school, is pretty amazing. i've seen some of the best sunsets of my life just walking out of one of the studios. am starting to realize just how lucky i am.
oh, and just fyi the last three before you get to the school pics are taken in a cemetary. its a really beautiful place. haven't taken the time to photo and explore there, but i can tell there are more images waiting for me there.