Eclectic Orphans #7
Behance has a wealth of photography teachers from whom we learn significantly daily; in fact, I borrowed the term "Orphans" from Ron Cohan to describe surplus images consigned to the scrap floor. I find him to be a highly competent photographer & valuable educator.
I read many photography books about technical and aesthetic skills, arrangements of chaos to order, and organizing composition with visual elements; everything is an interplay of your knowledge and experience. An excellent example of this is Seiki Hayashi, a master of techniques; I, like others, find his work outstanding and influential. But when the construction of the photograph is more noticeable than its content, we fail as photographers, becoming a dilettante in the worst possible sense.
So, we structure our visual translation with the mental process of making decisions to include or ignore and emphasize to the viewer what is important.
I often shoot spur-of-the-moment and intuitively, but first, pass the point of frustration. Having your camera ready at a moment's notice with the appropriate handheld shutter speed/f/stop can help minimize power optic vibrations; my tripod is essential for the longer lens on a medium-format camera, but it is not always practical.
The following images from the past six months have been plucked from previous posts due to similarity or repetition, dismissive of interest. If we pay close attention to our luminaries, we can become better photographers and even fashion ideas for vagabond Images, a cohesion I call Eclectic Orphans.
West Coast to the East Coast, Summer to Winter. (27 Images)
Bodega Bay, California.
Napa Valley, Vineyards.
Shiloh Windfarm, dry, dry grass, California.
Missouri.
Illinois. The Sangamon River Lake of the Woods Covered Bridge is beautifully durable and made of concrete, wood, and steel.
Indiana.
Wilbur Wright was born inside this house in Millville, Indiana; his father was a preacher.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Farming the Amish way.
Horse & buggy are the Amish's preferred mode of transportation, with cornfield to the left and modern vehicles to the far right side.
Horse-drawn crop spaying whilst drift smoke from Canadian wildfire greyed out the sky.
The Amish acquire unused racehorses reassigned for carriage work; together, they can exceed $35,000.00 to purchase.
Amish boy scoots on his chainless bicycle.
Tobacco Crops.
A field of flowers, New Jersey.
Central Park, New York City.
The Mall & Literary Walk, Central Park.
Upper New York Bay.
Manhattan Bridge from doors off helicopter flight, East River.
Fort Hancock, bare trees in winter & military housing.
An Irrigation Rigg catches my eye & prompts a shot at poetry.
Quiet, quiet wheels don't roll.
Winter rest, no hurry. The fields know
On the bounty of summer, they sleep for show.
C17 Globemaster, snow on the plains.
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Photography is a long, evolving road, a work in progress!
