Faces of Exit270 Part 15

My street photography can be considered more like street portraits of the people of exit 270.  I find myself absorbed in photographing the citizens of this place.  Street photography is a thoughtful awareness of the life around you - and quick response to the unexpected.   The camera helps you to focus and see what is sometimes invisible.  I try to move quickly, take the shot and move on to my next subject.  


The Art of Seeing

Photography to me is an exploration into the world around me, and a curiosity about the small things that I come in contact with.  This curiosity fluctuates between fantasy and reality.  I think creativity is a process of turning the ordinary into sometime visually interesting.  It is seeing things around you differently -you immerse yourself in visual design -light and shape are variables you visually try to control with the preconceived concept that resides within your mind.  While I am the first to say there are no rules to art or creativity.  There are four rules I follow -look, observe, compose and capture.  Photography is not just recording what you see - but conveying what you feel and want others to see.  

Don't Eat The Broccoli

Someone once said that Television was bubble gum for the eyes - I feel photography is bubble gum for the mind.  Your mind may trigger a thought, and your hand reaches for a camera -what follows is an image.  Even when I don't have a camera in my hands - I am mentally photographing what I feel and see, with the hopes of reproducing that thought or image at a later date.  Sometimes it works and other times what I thought I saw just doesn't happen.  It is the creative process that the camera allows me to participate in.  It becomes a life style of constant images and thoughtful observation of life around me.  Case in point –is my images of broccoli stalks that challenged this process.