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Shot through
I almost never delete an image. (Yes, that does require a LOT of storage.)
But here’s a good example of why I hang on to them. I made this image nearly three and half years ago; I was trying to photograph the way the water from the lawn sprinklers looked in the sun; when I made the images, none of them came out the way I wanted them to. There is a very good chance this was because I wasn’t all that sure about what I was doing. But I kept them: you just never know.
And then I spotted this while I was looking at some older stuff. Now, let me be the first to say that this still isn’t quite what I wanted to get. But, in a way, it’s better that what I thought I was after. The way that water is shot across the image and the way it obscures some of the markers are things I didn’t notice when I made the image. Or any of the other times since then that I’ve looked at it. It took until now for my eye to see what’s been there all along.
And that’s why I don’t delete images: because I have slow eyes.
Weaverville Cemetery
Weaverville, California
photographed 8.3.2012
Sunshade
This place feels like the end of time.
But it’s nice that the statue can keep her face out of the sun.
El Calvario Cemetery
Puerto de Luna, New Mexico
photographed 9.21.2013
Metallic Waves
The groundskeeper’s shed, way at the back of the cemetery, had very nice metal siding on it.
Columbia Cemetery
Boulder, Colorado
photographed 9.25.2015
Arch
I bet you’re sorry you didn’t get to see me frame up this shot! I really wanted to place the tall monument in the back between the arches of the foreground marker. I had to raise up on tiptoes, lean in over another marker, try to miss sun flares, and tilt to the left. It’s a little bit of a miracle that I didn’t injure myself.
Columbia Cemetery
Boulder, Colorado
photographed 9.25.2015
It all becomes one
The sign on the road said there was a heritage cemetery up this hill. What we found first was a regular one, still in active use.
It took a minute to notice the heritage one; the trees, the ground, and the headstones were all taking on the same textures, blending into one.
Argyle, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.30.2015
One Day | One Image 