Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:20 am
A photo-a-day for a year.
I haven't posted anything in quite a while so it's fitting that this one is announcing a new project.
Taking a photo a day is an ambitious project for me to say the least. Keeping creative, sharpening my skills, and working towards a defined goal all seem good reasons to start such a project. I'm using my iPhone to make the taking and uploading as painless as possible. Plus using a camera like the iPhone has it's own challenges as well as niceities. The format being square almost makes for a level playing field photographically speaking. The ShakeItPhoto app adds a bit of style as well so the series will look uniform and stylistically similar. I'm looking forward to this project and after having completed a little over a month of it already I feel confident that I can take it to it's completion.
The project can be viewed on my website at or on Flickr. I'm looking forward to a full years worth of images and perhaps a possible book at the end in December.
Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:27 pm
Impermanence, decay, and time extended.
Well its been a few weeks since my last post but I've come out of the gate with a new series. I call it Dust. It's a series started after a trip to my wife's grand parents home in Prescott, Arizona. We took a side trip one day to a restored ghost town nearby called Jerome. The place had quite a checkered past, full of old west shootouts, claim jumping and gold prospecting, but has now settled into a charming hippie town with, bikers, booze and boutiques. In town there's an old mine “museum”, which is something of a junk yard, that is in a state of permanent decay. It's filled with old cars, farm and mining equipment and dusty shacks with perhaps some nefarious histories. The place was captured in time and a perfect subject for me to explore the process of industrial desiccation. Warm tones, a ruddy palette and a subject steeped in history and dust.
Monday, September 15, 2008 11:07 pm
This one was photographed at the same time as Dunce Cap in the same room. With this photo, the relics of the old west really stand out and give it a feeling of dust and grime. Suspended decay in the school room.
Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:07 pm
The site of a taxidermy animal is always a bit unnerving. Seeing it in this tool shed in an old ghost town in Arizona is more so. I did like the light in the room. It cast a heavenly glow on the head. I like to think of this image as a sort of purgatory for the earthly remains of a once living beast.
Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:38 pm
A junk yard museum in an old ghost town in Arizona provided me this photo. It was taken in a classroom that was in a state of permanent decay, a classroom in the days of gold mining and claim staking.
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