Fragments in Time Part 2

I delight in the tranquility of an object I am viewing.  Finding subtleties in it as opposed to dramatic. This type of image pulls me into it. Finding beauty and elegance in everyday objects.  It is finding oneself in the objects around you.

G.K. Chesterton, the author said it best –“the things we see everyday are the things we never see at all.”

In my still life photography I like to isolate my subject against a neutral background.  The aesthetics of simplicity is what I strive for, with a balanced asymmetry within harmonious relationships.  Simply put, my images are simplicity of form, line and detail.  I want the viewer to experience the lines and shape of the subject.  It is minimalism style of photography.

Fragments in Time

The temperature for several months at Exit 270 forces me to confine my photographic pursuits to my surroundings.  What is that phrase, “these walls not a prison make” seems to be just the opposite.  Sometimes the familiar things in my space become invisible as I move within these walls.  It is like looking into the mirror and really seeing what is looking back at you. Therefore I began to question, do I really see the space I live in?

So for this post, I walk around this space making picture frames of the things that occupy my space and time.  I am basically making a photographic journal of this enclosed environment.  It becomes my perception of what is contained within these walls and my creative response to that space.  It is a challenge every photographer should explore, as a means of defining that daily blur we seem to find ourselves in.

The Devil's Leaf

I find that when I really look at something for a length of time the more my imagination churns.  I really make images for myself- you might say I am photographically self-centered.  These dead leaves from the pathos plant is a case in point -the more I observed these dead leaves and the early morning sunlight falling on them -the more images seemed to be conjured up in my mind.  Sometimes it is the small things that can stimulate your visual senses.