Polka dots

Deconstructing Labyrinths - Part 1 / Image 5

80 die-cast and stamped metal pieces

Minor Narratives #26

Walked at school. Found 1 broken reflector.

Deconstructing Labyrinths - Part 1 / Image 4

68 sq. in. of flex circuit

Deconstructing Labyrinths was started here

Minor Narratives #25

Walked at school. Found 1 theater prop.

Minor Narratives - #24

Walked at a city park. Found 9 blue and 2 red plastic bag ties.

Minor Narratives - #23

Walked at school. Found 3 painted leafs.

Autumn walks

Mink Hollow, Catskills.

My favorite walking season, Fall, is upon us here on the east coast. The mornings are brisk and the last of the humidity disappeared a few weeks ago. The fall color continues to creep south, this weekend it was at peak in the Catskills and patches of color are just starting to appear further south too.

The Super Heroes Among Us...

It's been just over a month since my last post but I'm finally back and will be posting on a regular basis again. A couple of cool photo related things happened this past month. A photo book I made titled Ordinary Hours won an Honorable Mention at the 2009 Photography Book Now competition hosted by Blurb.com. There was quite an international field of photographers and their books represented and I was honored to have the book featured. More info can be found here.

Also I just finished packing an order for five large prints today which will be making their way west to Pax Wine Cellars in Santa Rosa, CA. They make an excellent bottle of wine and the head wine maker is a good friend. Check them out here when you get a chance.

So that's it for the shameless plugs. Back to regularly scheduled programing...

The Importance of Long Term Projects

The last couple of weeks have been a little hectic with both a move and a new semester to deal with. But this morning I finished putting the final touches on my syllabi and there's only a couple more boxes that need to make their way down to the new garage so I'm in good shape, for the moment at least.

One of the things that kept me sane these past weeks is that I got to work on what I'm calling my really, REALLY long term photo project. It occurs once every year, on or around the time of my son's birthday. The project was started when I was thirty and the goal is to make one photograph of him a year, in a similar aesthetic, till he's thirty and I'm sixty (Lord willing...)

If this sounds impossible well perhaps it is (it's hard enough getting a two year old to sit still much less, I suspect, an adolescent who's willing to have his picture taken). But I think like many things that take a long time to develop (a classic vehicle rebuild, a special book collection, or a long term relationship) it will be the sum of the experiences rather than the finished project that ends up being very special. 

One of my favorite long term photo projects is a portrait project by photographer Nicholas Nixon titled, The Brown Sisters, that he's been doing since 1975. You can find out more about that project here