especially like thoughtful bus driver, in midst of glass, lines, reflections, letters, colors
― drash, Monday, 30 March 2015 11:08 (nine years ago) link
the bus driver is amazing. the reflections on the glass do a great job of describing the surroundings.
― chinavision!, Monday, 30 March 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link
Thanks! Such an expression of serene concentration. If I was about to negotiate Piccadilly Circus in charge of a double-decker I'd be wild-eyed with fear.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 30 March 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
http://36.media.tumblr.com/a81fdab85733d76f393669e9558bd552/tumblr_nlxz1u6Oek1sz4jfjo3_1280.jpghttp://41.media.tumblr.com/ef94a0e999526557ff382d99b8063cd6/tumblr_nldlbt5kfW1sz4jfjo1_1280.jpghttp://40.media.tumblr.com/7b9599eb25178ca24fa26ca0cd4ec584/tumblr_nlbp6eFWm51sz4jfjo1_1280.jpg
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 12:04 (nine years ago) link
nice, last one puts deep focus to good use; i like how the graffiti echoes the vegetation
― drash, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
Really like the middle one, bizarro gazzara.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
Not really been taking many photos in 2015, that said here are some iPhone ones from while I've been out on my bike over the last couple of days. Though a more honest representation of what I saw would be road and handlebars.
https://dgtzuqphqg23d.cloudfront.net/X_2CRn9TVBrAKR7m-SxXos2n4gvU8dr4yXv4cMFhsaA-768x575.jpghttps://dgtzuqphqg23d.cloudfront.net/o5Bd5VmfR8Z3sofCTNa7KSnsenB-in-LbwiThibCtfs-576x768.jpghttps://dgtzuqphqg23d.cloudfront.net/ufKdplhFnGodl5TdKMaC7R184VFHj3RjOKyrGj_5Tpw-768x768.jpghttps://dgtzuqphqg23d.cloudfront.net/vB8TUz2sMJHqC-Dkr2mRWFJt-tNII46gaCz8e-WKsdg-768x768.jpg
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
those 4 skies: the firmament. i appreciate the spareness of these, feels philosophical, esp like last 2
― drash, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 06:57 (nine years ago) link
squirrel diptych (2014)
http://i.imgur.com/HzsuWVZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pkdPUAs.jpg
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 13 April 2015 01:51 (nine years ago) link
love it. more you look, more interesting & pleasurable diptych gets (e.g. noticing visual rhymes within each & linking the two).
:) at off-kilter fencepost, magrittean leaf-birds
& of course aw squirrel! deadpan (funny/ poignant) connection with animal there reminds me of ed panar’s animals that saw me (though this def its own thing).
― drash, Monday, 13 April 2015 10:01 (nine years ago) link
ps delete "funny/poignant"; it's plain deadpan & i like that here
― drash, Monday, 13 April 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
I'm trying to force myself to work on photos again, so here are some pictures I just uploaded. All from last year though.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7659/16540403384_9825804378_z.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8757/17161200242_f362176b64_z.jpg https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7585/16540402824_aef9719cb3_z.jpg
― chinavision!, Thursday, 16 April 2015 01:50 (nine years ago) link
these are all very good
& pink & blue taste great together
sorry you're having to force a photographic lifestyle, i feel you
it's hard to just dig through your chronology sometimes i think
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 16 April 2015 03:58 (nine years ago) link
well I just haven't been taking many pictures lately. anything sort of good comes from probably six months ago at least. I figure it will come back later.
― chinavision!, Thursday, 16 April 2015 04:42 (nine years ago) link
(I think I can never be productive at making pictures and making music at the same time, and that's ok)
― chinavision!, Thursday, 16 April 2015 04:45 (nine years ago) link
not that I've been productive at either lately, but I've wasted a lot more spare time using synthesizers. it'll flip back in a couple years probably. it's hard to get back into the same mindset as before, when looking at nice pictures made me very excited to take my own, and to edit them.
― chinavision!, Thursday, 16 April 2015 04:53 (nine years ago) link
v cool, really like these, there's an uncanniness here that's up my alley
re digging through one's chronology, in my experience that can sometimes be as (or almost as) important as taking (new) pictures
an always developing aesthetic (personhood) doesn't just affect the pictures you take in the present, but also affects your appreciation/ recognition/ edit of the pictures you've taken in the past
i've been surprised at times to (re)discover (to "get" and come to love) photographs i'd neglected or put aside
even if old photographs don't make your "edit", going through your archive you learn things about your own sensibility, themes, etc.
and there's always the proustian thing. going through old photographs (maybe even more if they don't have obvious personal or sentimental value) is an existential trip
― drash, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:37 (nine years ago) link
taking fewer pictures feels healthy to melike letting some go byremembering that they did not need capturing, reallywith the exception of pictures of peoplealready so many pictures, &c&c&cmultiple sidewalk variations
& i don't know it's good to at least actually sense a natural inclination/disinclination, i think. instead of just routine clicking forever. especially if you're doing something else. sometimes when i'm not taking pictures it's because i'm tangled up in film vs digital debates or photography vs film torture, probably, in the background, have felt an impotence or lack of value to photographing things, have not walked half a block back to photograph a window that reverberated a little. it would be great if through all those spells i'd done the thing i was thinking about, instead of just not-doing the thing i usually did - so like if i had spasms of video & eras of digital, just aging. i read this beautiful david hockney bio, recently, & he was so good about aligning how he spent his time with where he was up to intellectually, or in mood. getting interested in polaroids & so dropping everything to pursue them, just fully engaging with the thing while he was enthusiastic about it & able to concentrate. going where the energy was. faxing drawings, &c.
really what i am saying is remember that william eggleston plays synthesised piano also
xp
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:42 (nine years ago) link
& yes! drash otm
having to look while editing is how i got however smart i am
but also
chronology is tiring
& pretty heavy
i think
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:43 (nine years ago) link
it's good to at least actually sense a natural inclination/disinclinationjust fully engaging with the thing while he was enthusiastic about it & able to concentrate. going where the energy wasreally what i am saying is remember that william eggleston plays synthesised piano also
just fully engaging with the thing while he was enthusiastic about it & able to concentrate. going where the energy was
otm, for me. (with proviso that photography like writing is different practice for different people, can’t generalize, etc)
but yeah— for me, photography is v tied to & dependent upon subconsious/ mood/ impulse— being moved to seek/ look/ frame/ press the shutter for reasons that aren’t entirely intellectually known to you. (really conscious, carefully planned or forced photography is more likely just to look like photographic paradigms you know. of course all photographs will look like your paradigms, to a large extent, but if forced it's more likely just to be hollow imitation). so imo it’s key to stay in touch with inclination, mood, etc. (not necessarily in a self-aware way; you can be opaque/ numb to yourself yet still feel impulse to take photographs).
it’s a cliche, but in my experience v true that what you read (or write), listen to (or play), what you live & experience, informs your photography as much as anything photographic. e.g. pursuing your aesthetic pleasures (in any medium) & taking care & time to savor that pleasure— dwell in it (poem, painting, song, film, feeling), not necessarily analyze it.
i have more vivid memories of photographs i didn't take than of photographs i did take
chronology is tiring& pretty heavyi think
this is true too. dealing with this at the moment, i think.
― drash, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:58 (nine years ago) link
ps "photography is v tied to & dependent upon subconsious/ mood/ impulse" and chance
― drash, Thursday, 16 April 2015 07:09 (nine years ago) link
chinavision did you ever share those photos you had in the book
― 龜, Thursday, 16 April 2015 11:14 (nine years ago) link
I think they're all on flickr in some form or another.
or good old http://ihardlyknowher.com/altairnouveau
I can't write much right now since I'm back in the office, ready for another slog of a day, but I appreciate the thinking and writing here by people who can express themselves better than I can.
― chinavision!, Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:41 (nine years ago) link
but yeah— for me, photography is v tied to & dependent upon subconsious/ mood/ impulse— being moved to seek/ look/ frame/ press the shutter for reasons that aren’t entirely intellectually known to you.
Definitely. When I know what I'm trying to do I'm usually disappointed with the results and (this is something I especially notice now when I'm painfully trying to fill up a paid-for Zenfolio site) while it's maybe "good enough" for Flickr and def fine for a quick fire up to Instagram/FB, I'm completely nonplussed by its mediocrity and lack of surprise months later and don't really want it to represent my work. Whatever that is.
I do take an awful lot of meh.
I like this one for the O-O-F woman under the pier.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8714/16954343847_947964297c_c.jpg
This appeals purely for verticals and backlit curves but everyone seems to like the fact that my children choose how to decorate my apartment and I have no control over it:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8754/16974067768_dbe75a022a_c.jpg
And this because the grubbiness of the sign makes me wonder whether the frozen yoghurt has some essence of sea bird in it...
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8684/16975582689_e5d2d8c033_c.jpg
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
evocative, like these v much. i also feel, like you, that my most "successful" photos tend to have a surplus something compelling in them, fascinating or absorbing the eye/ feeling, that's not the visual-thematic focus of the photograph (though may have connection to it, not necessarily). often something you only notice later, often something very small, prima facie inconsequential to the "meaning" of the photograph. a gleam of light, a strand of hair. maybe related to barthes idea of the "punctum" (as opposed to the "studium").
at some point i'll have to share some photos with you guys, the ilp crew. just have to get over or around, somehow, my weird pathological need for online privacy/ anonymity. i.e. get over myself.
loved your site (sight), chinavision
― drash, Thursday, 16 April 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
I got an X100T for myself, and randomly had a couple of weddings to go to, so I decided to be the extra photographer for them:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8770/16422743984_1a5fdcdb3b_b.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8599/15947181683_147c3a6bf9_b.jpg
And then I just liked this one of my son Owen at Glen Canyon:https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7352/16368741755_63ecfffa1b_b.jpg
― schwantz, Thursday, 16 April 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
great stuff schwantz - love the flare and unguarded moment in the first one, the sense of movement in the second and the starkness of the third - i'm a sucker for a landscape with a person in it
i love the x100 series so much
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 17 April 2015 08:50 (nine years ago) link
bizarro otm
― drash, Friday, 17 April 2015 09:13 (nine years ago) link
Thanks!
― schwantz, Friday, 17 April 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
schwantz, those X100T photos are nice, especially the last one.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7642/17204617215_b8ed8cc6f1_z.jpg
― michaellambert, Sunday, 19 April 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
Love the work here! This thread is always hugely inspiring. I've gotten out of the habit of posting new photos to Flickr because so much of what I shoot gets edited on iOS and uploaded to FB/Tumblr/etc.
Anyway: Flowers and demonstrations. Seoul's got it all these days.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8813/16890723780_962bd7d59b_c.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8701/17008670378_9b391a19e0_c.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8805/17008784968_5c568b18f2_c.jpg
― Millsner, Monday, 20 April 2015 05:29 (nine years ago) link
I like the colors in the demonstration pics.
― schwantz, Monday, 20 April 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
also like composition of last pic. fond of photographs in which you only see fragment of person's face (eg eyes, mouth) yet rich with expression. here you've got this black inhuman wall taking up most of the image (shields of institutional power) yet peeking out from behind you see faces/ eyes of bespectacled young men-- so young they look like boys-- human, anxious, fragile.
― drash, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 23:16 (nine years ago) link
I like everything posted recently but those demo pics really have something.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 23 April 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
I've not posted in a while, had a year where I just didn't really do anything.
I hope this works...
1st one's Vienna, 2nd one's Ladybower Reservoir.[Removed Illegal Image][/url][/img][Removed Illegal Image][/url][/img]
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 23 April 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
Oh well, that what i get for not posting for over a year...
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7689/17088618847_cf748d072a_z.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8826/16675818963_2aa44f1258_z.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8686/17088619337_7425e61c9e_z.jpg
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 02:29 (nine years ago) link
Love all of those, especially the first.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 02:36 (nine years ago) link
^yes. the light and shadow.
― drash, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 09:01 (nine years ago) link
thanks! still find that I'm forcing myself to work on photography rather than jumping into it lately, but so it goes.
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 13:24 (nine years ago) link
It's only a sky, but it's my sky. (I.e, the view from my flat when I get home from work; 135mm lens on a crop body)...
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8791/17263070241_c15a82f385_c.jpg
St Giles angles, reflections, glassy texture and non-texture...
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7642/17263213371_8f7810b000_c.jpg
Same place...
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8822/17077528709_4eb1f4989e_c.jpg
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Love that middle one!
― schwantz, Thursday, 30 April 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jlH2OmA.jpg
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 3 May 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
Lovely triptych
― 龜, Sunday, 3 May 2015 23:07 (nine years ago) link
Yes! Always happy to see this thread bumped!
― michaellambert, Monday, 4 May 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
^^^
― drash, Monday, 4 May 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
So much light this April. From everywhere.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8690/17371915511_ce3afc9d90_c.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8854/17372211655_f66cbd8f95_c.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8770/17346222996_6daac65b99_c.jpg
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
Zoo with family yesterday: http://ow.ly/M5Fbq
― markers, Sunday, 10 May 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/wp1qb9ueustf5wy/c1314727.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/8yk1ss09ykomzg8/c146229.jpg
― drash, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
those are really nice. I like the blocks of color in the top one.
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Bit big, sorry.
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
Cool!
― schwantz, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 00:04 (nine years ago) link
really like those schlumplike play on visibility, layered veilings, light & shadow, event of small ephemeral human figure in scene
― drash, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 02:28 (nine years ago) link
Charity shop non-purchases on a Sunday afternoon...
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5809/22318371860_917b05a0da_c.jpg
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5690/21885138253_1e29b4c44c_c.jpg
She ain't heavy, she's my sister...
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5794/21963091664_1297b652df_c.jpg
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 31 October 2015 09:56 (nine years ago) link
Took some pictures at my kids' school carnival today...
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5655/22654721495_31242f4d4c_b.jpg
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5720/22031115934_5be31fd80c_b.jpg
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5730/22640433202_203759f5a7_b.jpg
― schwantz, Sunday, 1 November 2015 01:13 (eight years ago) link
Lovely colours.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 1 November 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
Great light too! Same goes for your last set, Michael.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 1 November 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
Thanks! Kind of jacked everything up a bit in Lightroom this time. Also, it's the perfect time of year for good light around here.
― schwantz, Monday, 2 November 2015 02:12 (eight years ago) link
Lots of lovely fog lately.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/751/22792112475_787b6672a2_c.jpg
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/589/22778619032_7c06ca181e_c.jpg
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5624/22170997713_7ba66cdb28_c.jpg
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 5 November 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
Great time of year (for taking photos)!
― schwantz, Thursday, 5 November 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
Some favourites from Mexico:
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/635/22069147390_0d6606e377_c.jpg
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/771/22043338439_74a89d1f25_c.jpg
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5716/22044700299_cdabfa1f83_c.jpg
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5644/21643898463_5cb9ea27fc_c.jpg
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/608/21590104394_e11a3a4d7b_c.jpg
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/657/21584378573_e1d84bbf63_c.jpg
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/722/22011633410_bf18de6f6b_c.jpg
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5804/22003428750_4042fc241b_c.jpg
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5689/22151867236_3a6a125ba7_c.jpg
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
Great stuff! Going to Thailand next week - hopefully I can get some good pics...
― schwantz, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
Isle of Sky again, 5am start for the Old Man of Storr, had to stop for this. I'm a sucker for a sunrise/sunset...https://farm1.staticflickr.com/767/22957651942_34aabdb011_c.jpgUntitled
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:45 (eight years ago) link
Another from Skye...https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5738/22594244574_cbe727b213_c.jpgSkye Bridge
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 22 November 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link
A few from my family trip to Thailand...
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5741/23091527109_4ddb0b0335_b.jpgShaved ice toppings by David Isbister, on Flickr
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5710/22834087923_4f91fce508_b.jpgLong boats by David Isbister, on Flickr
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/738/23352004972_a74733acb0_b.jpgGrilling fish by David Isbister, on Flickr
The whole set is here
― schwantz, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
Love the ice toppings one.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 4 December 2015 11:56 (eight years ago) link
Great shots, particularly 2 & 3, is that salt on the fish? That's a great camera and lens you're using, how is it usability wise?
Another from Scotland trip, one of the Three Sisters in Glencoehttps://farm1.staticflickr.com/665/23248509220_89eabff518_c.jpg
― not_goodwin, Saturday, 5 December 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
Thanks! Yeah, that's salt. I'm using the X100T (no detachable lens). I love it. Only drawbacks are:
1. Stuck with one lens. Makes the camera small, but it's pretty wide-angle. 2. Battery life isn't great. I bring an extra battery, and it can charge via USB so you can use one of those phone backup batteries to charge it in a pinch.
I'm sure there are other ones (esp. Vs. a high-end camera), but I've been very happy with it. If I had to do it again, I might have gone with the X-T1/10 so I could get some different lenses.
― schwantz, Sunday, 6 December 2015 00:49 (eight years ago) link
phone dilettante here, considering purchase. virginia in october: http://imgur.com/a/EAlyM
― home organ, Monday, 21 December 2015 06:43 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/X1zBcyj.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/UmpKa76.jpg
― 50 Shades of Santa (Sanpaku), Monday, 21 December 2015 07:40 (eight years ago) link
That second one is really pretty (first one good too)!
― schwantz, Monday, 21 December 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
Another from the Scotland road trip. I'm going back in march, Doing the NC500 this time, I hope i do it Justicehttps://farm6.staticflickr.com/5622/24009354715_0b612a8499_c.jpgNeist Point
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 27 December 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
An alleyway at the Glasgow Cross end of Argyle Street.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1676/23416787743_e4d18451e0_z.jpg
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 12:14 (eight years ago) link
A few shots from the studio:
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1577/24079241219_a3bfab0320_b.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1686/24151685280_824cd98f5c_b.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1560/24427257656_960bb3e373_b.jpg
― schwantz, Saturday, 30 January 2016 22:30 (eight years ago) link