While last Friday’s trip down the bayou will require a more expansive treatment in text and pictures, let it be stated unequivocally that my taste for idiosyncratic cars and signage remains as strong as my penchant for photographing walls with people in front of them.
Call this an expansion of the painted sky theory espoused previously. This one is from Central Florida, and taken at the appropriate hour. There is simply no cloud that looks like this hovering over any part of NYC or the boroughs.
Oh, and I can’t get enough of shooting things on this floor apparently.
Walking home, I saw these scenes and ran to grab my camera, hoping to get back on time.
There’s a point at which the natural light has faded such that artificial light is just as bright. It is a fertile moment for photography. Unfortunately, I was about five minutes too late when I snapped these — there would be less noise in the pictures had I been on time. A subtle visual articulation of the clouds is the hallmark of that special hour.
Umm, so I almost got struck by lightning. Wanna see the video?
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This Summer, in spite of living in a new (to me) and very picturesque city, I’ve started to fearlessly explore a technique of photography I like to call “objects sitting atop handwritten notes scribbled on the New York Times.” So far, so good.
From the above:
Five Favorite American Actors:
Dennis Hopper
Sean Penn
Christopher Walken
Roger Guenveur Smith
Bill Murray
Non-American Alternates:
Clive Owen
Javier Bardem
Idris Elba