what do you see like: 2015

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it's good to at least actually sense a natural inclination/disinclination

just fully engaging with the thing while he was enthusiastic about it & able to concentrate. going where the energy was

really what i am saying is remember that william eggleston plays synthesised piano also

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 heavy
i 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

, 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.
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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...

not_goodwin, Thursday, 23 April 2015 22:15 (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

Lovely triptych

, 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

Zoo with family yesterday: http://ow.ly/M5Fbq

markers, Sunday, 10 May 2015 20:51 (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

thanks, chinavision (about time i posted something, to prove i am actual person who actually takes photographs sometimes)

drash, Thursday, 14 May 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link

Yeah, good colours!

Oh, I bought myself a little camera. I couldn't resist. Fuji X-M1. My first day out with it...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8805/17033607133_4f66ee97d5_c.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8837/17031943974_77a2767a35_c.jpg

Michael Jones, Friday, 15 May 2015 10:50 (nine years ago) link

I've just recently felt like I'm emerging from a real period of drought and lack of inspiration that has lasted more than a year, London can be a really boring city to look at when you've been here 20 years.

I had a couple of days in Paris recently while my other half was at a work conference so I made a plan to visit as many of it's famous passages as I could, some were amazingly beautiful Belle Époque style arcades with fashionable galleries and little tearooms and some just had 20 barbers and a curry house, the grimy ones were more interesting to photograph by miles though.

This is Passage Caire which is the longest remaining one and is given over to clothes wholesalers mostly.

http://i60.tinypic.com/9tzrqh.jpg
http://i62.tinypic.com/o7ppvd.jpg

MaresNest, Sunday, 17 May 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link

Couple more...

http://i57.tinypic.com/2vwwv3a.jpg
http://i60.tinypic.com/30ausjp.jpg

MaresNest, Sunday, 17 May 2015 11:35 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/pC0dILJ.jpg

markers, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link

WTF is that?! Looks cool...

schwantz, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link

I do a lot of digital manipulation of the photos I take. If you turn your head sideways, you’ll see all the busses lined up.

markers, Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link

Here’s one more, from yesterday:

http://i.imgur.com/xbfRgSq.jpg

markers, Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link

I was in Shetland for work (briefly) a couple of weeks ago. Took and used my Fuji X10 for the first time in ages, quite happy with the results for once.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8855/18207529722_a1cf1898fc_b.jpg

Rest of the set: https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaellambert/sets/72157653604446212

michaellambert, Thursday, 28 May 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Got to go to Yosemite last week. Tried to get some waterfall shots with longer exposures, but they blew out the highlights pretty badly.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/461/18702202276_e5387e7e73_b.jpg

And a couple more, from Camp Mather in the evening:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/379/18722893432_5243d94fcf_b.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/558/18727753745_a67459ec4e_b.jpg

More here.

schwantz, Friday, 12 June 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link

Always a big fan of night photos like the one of the phone boxes.

michaellambert, Friday, 12 June 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link

Likewise. Nice series.

Millsner, Saturday, 13 June 2015 06:38 (nine years ago) link

Still mostly using the Fuji but the Canon comes out for events:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8787/18071915848_860cb3b8f2_c.jpg

Back to the Fuji in the park:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/316/18064720213_56a1af28a9_c.jpg

And on the street:

https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7734/18214063096_5cab22606f_c.jpg

Michael Jones, Saturday, 13 June 2015 09:14 (nine years ago) link

Great colors!

schwantz, Saturday, 13 June 2015 14:27 (nine years ago) link

Same venue and almost the same angle as Michael's great pianist shot ^

http://i57.tinypic.com/14mewc7.jpg

MaresNest, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 08:14 (nine years ago) link

Oh that's ace.

Michael Jones, Friday, 26 June 2015 06:34 (nine years ago) link

Love the preacher!

Took the Canon + L-zoom to Barcelona, but also the little Fuji + 35mm prime for night-time shots around El Born. The former (#3 below) are touristy (but necessary!), the latter (#1 and #2) have more feel...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/365/19176488200_f621331734_c.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/282/18716281704_be713d7845_c.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/521/19339657716_cbfd97f1c9_c.jpg

Michael Jones, Friday, 3 July 2015 12:31 (nine 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

two weeks pass...

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

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 Justice
https://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

one month passes...

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