4 Women

I'm juggling with thoughts and repeating myself at times just like life repeats itself everyday with a different face. I need to find a consistent approach in general, but especially in doing photos, not to mismanage time and effort. Reason why I was happy about reading about Weston and Leiter's way of sort of "planning their photography" (See post Rush no spirit no rush spirit). I rarely do that, maybe because of the small territory of my photography caused by limited time to go around places, so grabbing anything that comes my way compensates lack of time and feed the urgency of doing photography.Not surprisingly, it has resulted in a lot of waste of film and time as well. Going digital crucial and mandatory is to define one's work, so that every frame gets you closer to your goal. For me a gentle reminder. As for references to photographers, I know "my classics". I now feed more on articles and essays about them than their photos which are results of a philosophy and a way of doing.

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M Street NW

In my memory, that image is among the first ones I did when I got back shooting b+w in the u.states. That info is important to me now because, first I haven't shot that much b+w and also when I did it was never in good conditions. Can't do real good b+w shooting while driving around. Hence poor production or "deja vu" which is poor production 2.
That shot, while not being a wonder, is what got close to what I consider being on the way to feel good 'bout doing Street Photography. Damn! Bon Sang! I miss being out there!
This got me doing a lot of color which is easy and has always on top of that been easier to get processed lately. And with digital capture first we see and mostly think color.(I've converted some, but still it don't come as naturally as it does when you're 100% into it(=b+w)). So color is...


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Women in Blue

Sometimes reality joins fiction and vice versa. And sometimes you're just lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time, and grateful that you brought your camera in your car.

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