Sorry, I’m technically a day late on the PotW, but Friday seems a better day to do it anyway. Well, here goes:
This weeks batch was actually very difficult. First I had to weed out all the Liam pics, which proved to be my best stuff of that batch. Then I had to filter out three from the rest. I was really digging a lot of the ones I took this week, making it difficult to choose three.
This one was tough, since Liam was right there with me, so I was trying to spin the (what do you call those things?) thing around without whacking him in the face. I would have liked to have gotten another shot at this pic, but it was a no go.
Edward Weston in the house! This one is very evocative of the work of Edward Weston - my all-time favorite photographer. Of course, he was using a Large Format camera (Quick Aside: the Large Format class I took in school ruined photography for me. I LOVED L/F so much that once out of that class, I really couldn’t go back to 35mm. The amount of control and clarity you get with L/F is astounding.) so he really has the advantage on me.
Why is this interesting to me? I don’t know. Some workers are gutting the elementary school’s heating and a/c units and this was a shot of some kind of….part.
Well what do you think?
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13.06.08 at 13:41:36
chrissy
I like the blurry movement in the first one, especially in contrast with the crispness of the sand. Can you use the word crispness to talk about a photo? Oh well. You can now.
13.06.08 at 18:26:31
Mike Huxley
Yes, “crisp” came up a lot in our photography classes. You wouldn’t want to describe a photograph as crisp in, say, Britain, though.
13.06.08 at 19:44:05
Carleen Huxley
Crisps? Skips. Prawn Cocktail flavored. I know it sounds gross but their so good. Especially when washed down with an Irn Bru.
But back to the pics. I definitely like the spinny wheel thing best too. I know you think you could have done better with it but there’s still enough contrast with the stillness of the ground. I have to admit…I just loved the one’s of Liam this time. We need to find more inanimate objects that are as cute as Liam is on our walks.
13.06.08 at 23:45:32
Joshua
So as much as I may like the first shot, I’m voting for the second. There’s much to be said for its simplicity and uncomplicated composition. The vertical orientation and vertical lines in the tree give this image a certain energy, don’t you think? And your attention to the shadows and light play create enough depth and dimension to cause me to pause and look just a bit longer. I also appreciate the foundational structure that the darker area of the trunk lends to the larger image. But then again, I’m a photo geek and I could look at photography all day long. Just ask my wife how long it took to get me out of the photography section of the Smithsonian.
Look forward to more.
14.06.08 at 20:14:59
Carleen Huxley
Josh, glad we have photo geeks on here. They’re hot (obviously, I married one :-).
15.06.08 at 10:14:47
Mike Huxley
Wow. Thanks Josh, that’s quite a comment!
Actually, I picked the one I did because I felt the second one (your choice) lacked energy. The motion of the wheel gives me the sense of mystery: who’s riding this thing? Why can’t we see this person? It’s interesting to me in that it almost feels like I attempted to catch a moment and just barely missed it. That’s intriguing to me.
15.06.08 at 20:49:10
Carleen
I see what you mean, Mike. In fact, it would even add more intrigue to the picture if you could see a shadow on the ground of someone on the spinny wheel thing. But as a whole, the first shot and the tree trunk shot compliment each other really well. There first one is in motion, it looks almost rickety, unstable, fragile, man made from metal. The tree trunk is something rooted in nature, strong, still, reliable.