Comes down to timing
It was one of those days at the end of the summer when it was still hot but you could sort of talk yourself into thinking that there was something in the air that made it feel like fall. Like a breeze that was a few degrees cooler. Or a dead leaf lifted by that same breeze and snagged on a power line.
(And this: I thought the photo was going to be about that old barn. The leaf changed that for me.)
Cookieville, Oklahoma
photographed 9.18.2021
Light and the iris leaves
A hilltop and windswept cemetery, an obelisk-shaped marker, and the backlit iris leaves were all I needed.
Guthrie, Texas
photographed 9.17.2021
Rectilinear
Later this month, I will be out on the road for the better part of a week, shooting a new project. Since it’s been a while since I’ve done that sort of trip, I decided to take myself on a shakedown trip – reminding myself how to travel, how to drive, how to read maps, how to navigate myself in unfamiliar areas. And that’s the reason I found myself in Grandfield, Oklahoma, on a Saturday morning. I looked at the downtown and the side streets and the residents looked at me.
It was perfect.
Grandfield, Oklahoma
photographed 9.18.2021
Stairs + Chimneys
Walk around back.
Look at what’s behind you.
Look up, too.
(Some of my rules when I’m out making photos.)
Beacon Hill
Boston
photographed 8.28.2021
Obligatory Location
It was a delightful coincidence that my work trip to Boston could be arranged to allow me to participate in a group photo walk through the lovely Beacon Hill neighborhood. If I am being honest, places like Beacon Hill aren’t my favorite locations; it is much tidier and well-kept than the places I like to shoot. Plus the class required the use of a 50mm lens, and it is not a lens I automatically use.
Challenges are good, though. They make your brain work in different ways, make your eyes seek different subjects. Those are always excellent exercises for photographers and I am very happy that I was able to take the class.
And that’s the long way of explaining that this street seems to be the most famous street in all of Boston, and so I sort of had to photograph it.
Beacon Hill
Boston
photographed 8.28.2021
One Day | One Image 