this will be redone

The Bob- Grand Rapids

to come up so suddenly out of a haze
that has lingered over months
and shared beds and inadequacies,
steaming tea pots and lonely sheets
and into a year
things are almost too bright and too clear
i am not here
i am light, i am ten, twenty feet above everything
my skin has history
it is history
these fingers are spinning lines
casting towards forever
and i find rest in restlessness
and knowing
uncertainty will always be unwound

black and whites

submerged

summer 09 on black lake

yesterday

my camera was all like HEY LETS TAKE BLURRY PICTURES TODAY.
i want a new camera with a decent lens.

gather myself in
and spread myself thin again
out
further
fill the spaces
that fill you

these two photos have no correlation whatsoever.

i was a little more sure when i knew a little less

kitty

the neighbor's cat. likes to sit outside my window sometimes and listen to the radio with me. she'll sit up on the air conditioning unit and listen to me sing, too.

rich

he let me use his camera latter to photograph the fireworks :)

skaters

taken with honeywell pentax spotmatic, kodak 400 film

back

from the head to the heart-things grow

shadow (3)

Two shots I particularly liked:

Something about this almost looked like an overlay photo. I don't know. This is one I want to work on more.


I was going for a falling effect and realized when editing that it kind of looked like running through a field at sunset.

shadow (2)

There are a lot of things I'd like to fix with these shots (the lines in the background, for instance) but I don't have adequate editing software for that.

But, what I liked about this shoot was it allowed me to shoot full body. I typically don't like to shoot full body because I can't tell how my pose is going to look. I really enjoyed playing with shapes here.

Another thing is that I feel we rely so much on concrete potraits-- we need to see a face, hands, a solid form. The face, the appearance, clothing, hair: these are all so expressive of character. Shooting a shadow, or an abstract form, character can be obscured, but emotion can be so much more vivid. Body language, posture, action, motion, and relation to environment all say so much.

To keep things short, I think this is a concept I will be exploring more frequently. Shadows and reflections (exhibited in a previous post). These just feel more candid and personal to me right now.