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Pretty much all my photographs within a short radius of home, usually within walking distance or less than half an hour's drive. One reason is that this enables me to take photographs when I have a short time available, or on the journey to or from somewhere. I still manage to find plenty to get me thinking, which is why I can never understand people who say there's nothing to photograph where they live. Maybe I just look at things differently? Anyway, I have developed a couple of projects which I work on as the mood takes me. If I try to concentrate on them too hard they get stilted. Both projects involve (to my warped mind) an element of humour and a serious side.
The first one I call The Vintage Village. This is an ongoing, open ended, series of views of the area where I live, taken to look as boring as possible (although they are carefully composed) and all cropped to a 5x4 format and given an 'aged' treatment. I'm trying to make pictures that look at a casual glance to be old by their appearance, but on closer examination can't be because there are things like street lights, road markings, wheelie bins, parked cars and so forth in the frame. I'm having a bit of a dig at the nostalgia market with this project - I imagine the pictures being presented in fake aged wooden frames.
These are a few of the ones I think work best. (I'll probably be losing the borders.)
The second project has an end in sight - Twelve Views of Holy Trinity Church - which I intend turning into a calendar (just for myself) if I ever manage to complete it. Naturally enough the church doesn't feature prominently in any of the pictures and the views are not picturesque! Despite knowing what kind of pictures I need to take this is proving a difficult project. Although I have far more than a dozen photographs I only have four or five so far that are working the way I want them. Making twelve different pictures, without making the obvious ones, is harder than I thought it would be.
While the (one liner) joke is the church being an insignificant feature of the photos the serious point is that the church spire is visible from all around the parish, and beyond, but most of the time we don'[t notice it. In part the project is about how we take our surroundings for granted, how we just don't look at things. Really look.. Noticing the church cropping up in my photos was my starting point, and the 'pastiche' calendar idea came later when I imagined that a church might well produce a calendar of local views to raise funds. It goes without saying that the design of the calendar will be amateurish...
For me photography is all about looking at the world, finding it interesting even when it's mundane. Doing stuff like this keeps me interested and gives me a reason to go out with the camera. It's fun to do, even if it never gets an audience.
The first one I call The Vintage Village. This is an ongoing, open ended, series of views of the area where I live, taken to look as boring as possible (although they are carefully composed) and all cropped to a 5x4 format and given an 'aged' treatment. I'm trying to make pictures that look at a casual glance to be old by their appearance, but on closer examination can't be because there are things like street lights, road markings, wheelie bins, parked cars and so forth in the frame. I'm having a bit of a dig at the nostalgia market with this project - I imagine the pictures being presented in fake aged wooden frames.
These are a few of the ones I think work best. (I'll probably be losing the borders.)
The second project has an end in sight - Twelve Views of Holy Trinity Church - which I intend turning into a calendar (just for myself) if I ever manage to complete it. Naturally enough the church doesn't feature prominently in any of the pictures and the views are not picturesque! Despite knowing what kind of pictures I need to take this is proving a difficult project. Although I have far more than a dozen photographs I only have four or five so far that are working the way I want them. Making twelve different pictures, without making the obvious ones, is harder than I thought it would be.
While the (one liner) joke is the church being an insignificant feature of the photos the serious point is that the church spire is visible from all around the parish, and beyond, but most of the time we don'[t notice it. In part the project is about how we take our surroundings for granted, how we just don't look at things. Really look.. Noticing the church cropping up in my photos was my starting point, and the 'pastiche' calendar idea came later when I imagined that a church might well produce a calendar of local views to raise funds. It goes without saying that the design of the calendar will be amateurish...
For me photography is all about looking at the world, finding it interesting even when it's mundane. Doing stuff like this keeps me interested and gives me a reason to go out with the camera. It's fun to do, even if it never gets an audience.
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