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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
August 17
At the Jake Jackson Memorial Museum, I was sort of captivated by this crocheted doily, largely because I am not a fan of symmetry, and this is marvelously asymmetrical. Kudos to the crocheter!
Weaverville, California
photographed 8.3.2012
August 15
The groundskeeper was chatty, happy to have live people to talk to. He told us which graves marked members of the Oddfellows, where the town’s founder was buried, where the Masonic section was (“from here to that oak tree”), that he has a book on symbols of Victorian grave markers, that the doe we saw has had twin fawns three years in a row, and that sometimes the deer steal the plastic flowers on the graves.
detail, gravemarker
Weaverville, California
photographed 8.3.2012
One Day | One Image 