Category: Artifacts

Always something to find at the 99 cent store!

While closing out the photoshop file, I accidentally turned on a few layers at the same time and stumbled upon this fun graphic.

I’ll do it in reverse chronological order.

While helping the baby take care of business, I realized this has just enough circles to meet the assignment.

I reshot the slippers to see if the iphone might get me something sharper.

While sitting outside with the SLR, I realized that my slippers had a bunch a circles.

I had some trouble trying to find circles while at Zion National Park. Even after realizing she had circles on her jackets, I just couldn’t get the a good shot.

I think when Jeffery came up with the assignment Circular last year, I think he thought out loud it would be interesting to do some photos that were round in the framing, though I think he ended up going back to the more straight forward (processing wise) approach of just letting it be interpreted freely. While working on OTP 115, I think it got all mixed up in my head. In any case I ended up shooting up at the big tree at Zion National Park and got a couple nice circular images.

This was from the same shot, but a different crop.

And one from the trunk. Unfortunately, it was with the front facing camera, so it pixelated pretty heavily.

just a simple one from 99 cent everything.

Having just a few minutes of downtime was relatively rich in terms of photo gathering….I was trying to force remembrance and typography together, but I’ll just go with typography. These I think came out stronger in black and white, which is a move I often test, but rarely actually publish. Maybe one day I should actually set out to make a BW series.

The back yard of the mechanic that I go to is quite a bit higher than the adjacent shopping center property. And since the dividing wall is only 4′ high (on my side), this opens up opportunities for some interesting perspectives.

Bill Wadman, one of the hosts of OTP, often mentions a desire to leave a mark in this world. I ended up going with the most sparse composition for the upload.

But I also liked the idea of having one’s ephemeral shadow in the frame

And for a wider context Jeffery Saddoris, the other host, has a thing for dumpsters. So I took this shot cause it was also there behind the mechanics yard while I waited for the oil change.

This turned out to be one of the most popular assignments out there, and while I didn’t spend a ton of time trying to get a great shot for this, I did come across more than a few instances. I think the best ones on the OTP group were either really in tight or way out. Unfortunately most of mine are all in the messy middle. However I wanted to ship…but maybe I’ll come back to this one.

First we start with some old signs.

And then one where the baby got her hand in front of the lens right as I was shooting an old xeroxed instruction sheet at an old hotel

A hand written example from my watering hole

And a completely hand made one from Mount Charleston.

I looked around for symmetry at Zion National Park and we found it (surprise!) with the help of a reflecting pool.

The wider angle shot with the iphone played better BW.

And a couple previous attempts that basically got relegated to the b-side as soon as we hiked up to this pool.