Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Front Porch Religion (05000004)
This is from my 500th (more or less) roll since coming back to photography a couple of years ago. A silly milestone, yes, but one that I'm proud of. I gave up photography for a number of years that were fairly dark for a variety of reasons, so I'm grateful to have it back and for all the encouragement and useful criticism folks here given me. Thanks!
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An interesting name for a house! Lost visitor: "can you tell me where I can find ... ?".
That is a reasonable investment in film and quite a challenge in terms of cataloguing negatives. Anyway it all seems to have been very good value in terms of the end result and we have been among the beneficiaries of those 500 exposed rolls.
This is a fitting half-millennium photo: is that the holy ghost I see in the window? Is the house empty: the boarded-up window hints at it? The diagonal of the decking (needs repairing) follows through from the bars of sunlight.
Happy 500th. Saw this on your site and that central window really took me in. The layer of photographer, tree and then car are well captured. I'm in two minds about the slither of greenery along the right hand side but a cropping out alters the whole balance of the shot.
Congrats on your 500th. We certainly have benefitted from your unique and artful view of the world.
The window reflection here is certainly interesting as Guy noted. I also like the rough wood floor planks and the streaks of light on the siding. More than that though, the entire scene presents very well a piece of Americana that is not so easy to describe in words. My guess is that the house is occupied.
500 rolls, phew, that is a lot of developing/printing and scanning. Well done.
This is well framed by the doorway, roof and greenery bottom and right. The window holds my interest with its reflections and wondering what is really inside the house. The view through the righ side of the porch also forming a window and the reflections on the door set up a repetition that make me travel from one to the other investigating each.
It's a great scene, thankfully I can keep on looking at it without seeming to be a voyeur staring into someone's home.
More congratulations on the 500 rolls.
My first thought about the far right hand side's slither of background was that it was necessary to give context to the rest of the photo, but playing with some crops the photo changes in interesting ways as the slither is removed. In particular the slanted window takes on much more significance.
I'm less keen on the reflections that the others - being drawn instead to the patches of light on the wall to the right of the central window and on the roof.
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That is a reasonable investment in film and quite a challenge in terms of cataloguing negatives. Anyway it all seems to have been very good value in terms of the end result and we have been among the beneficiaries of those 500 exposed rolls.
This is a fitting half-millennium photo: is that the holy ghost I see in the window? Is the house empty: the boarded-up window hints at it? The diagonal of the decking (needs repairing) follows through from the bars of sunlight.
The window reflection here is certainly interesting as Guy noted. I also like the rough wood floor planks and the streaks of light on the siding. More than that though, the entire scene presents very well a piece of Americana that is not so easy to describe in words. My guess is that the house is occupied.
This is well framed by the doorway, roof and greenery bottom and right. The window holds my interest with its reflections and wondering what is really inside the house. The view through the righ side of the porch also forming a window and the reflections on the door set up a repetition that make me travel from one to the other investigating each.
It's a great scene, thankfully I can keep on looking at it without seeming to be a voyeur staring into someone's home.
My first thought about the far right hand side's slither of background was that it was necessary to give context to the rest of the photo, but playing with some crops the photo changes in interesting ways as the slither is removed. In particular the slanted window takes on much more significance.
I'm less keen on the reflections that the others - being drawn instead to the patches of light on the wall to the right of the central window and on the roof.