Fall Ev

TV in the back yard.

The High in Atlanta has expanded since I left 6 years ago. I stmbled on the familiar system of ramps trying to get to the Da Vinci exhibit.

More photos from the weekend using the shake it photo app… The pool, bluebird & brunch.

I fell into the iPhone last night and came out with a great app, shake it photo. I am not a big fan of the iPhone camera, it’s rathr clumsy even compared with cell phone cameras. The resolution is great but lacks control.

Shake it photo gives the appearance of a Polaroid (with sound effects and wait rime to boot). I guess the iPhone now has about as must control as a plaeoid camera. Are we regressing? If so, still some fun photos. And you can usd the app on previously taken shots, too.

Still trying to wake up this Sunday after spending two days with the “girls”….Rodger’s girls; Maggie, Jen, Cheyenne….and me.  It was a surprise treat to have Jen and Cheyanne come through on the way back to Florida…and perfect timing for father’s day.  We ate every meal off the grill and spent as much time at the pool as we did watching movies.

I’ve posted some images that Maggie, Jen and Cheyanne took.  Maggie and Cheyanne are shutterbugs with their point and shoot cameras…taking some really awesome photos.  I hope to take the images from this weekend and make a book so we can remember the weekend.

Enjoy the photos!

Wendy

Wendy taken by Cheyanne

Today, the photos speak for themselves.  A few selections from a series on signs is posted on my flickr page…come hear:

Save Our City, Sky Stop, Sorry, What’s Real, Turn in Here, Exit, Church and Gay, Please, Do Not, Restoration in Progress

Wendy

Sunday Signs on Flickr

Warhol Museum; Andy's Lion

Spent a fabulous weekend with my fabulous husband who allowed me to do some fabulous editing work. In the photography phases of my life,  subject matter may change like the weather but one thing remains constant; I am shooting or I am editing.  To be editing provides the brain (right or left?) with much needed solace.  Not unlike the creative part of shooting, you are creating an entire new body or project.  Whether it’s a portfolio, a book, a marketing campaign…they all benefit from tight photo editing.

My mind wanders through the myriad of images we have taken at Aerial Innovations or through my own archives.  Once I have seen them several odd amounts of time, I can almost review them from memory. The strong ones remain, the weak ones fall away.  Once back with the thumbnails/contact sheets cut apart, it turns into a big memory game…which ones go together, making secret little matches.  More weak images fall away, several new surprises happen, until it is cohesive and tells a story.

I keep in mind from the beginning the skeleton of this story.  What are the images trying to say, who are they saying it to, can they complete the thought or do they need more help?  All of these componants go into the story.  If you understand, I have been successful.

Driveway with Flags

Friday before Memorial Day..I will pretend it’s Sunday since I am going where there are no connections, except with family, friends & nature.  A few images up of “flags”, the great american-photographer subject.  I start to notice them more and more, then it begins to fade into the backdrop until someone says, “notice the flag?” and I am back to seeing them every where.

Love of country, love of countrymen, love of symbolism in imagery.

Happy Memorial Day 2009.

Wendy

Flags on Flickr

Street View, NYC

The New York City trips I have taken over the past five years consitute an extremely varied body of work. It was as if I could not be limited by subject matter or format, my eye exploring every avenue.  I was fortunate to have 5 (or is it 6) trips from which to choose images.

The editing process for this group has boiled down to , “Can I look at this image another hundred times?”  If I can, it makes the cut.  I have reviewed these images probably more than any other group of work I can think of. The NYC images are comprised of film and digital captures..even going so far as to haul the C220 around (that is probably what gave me some minor shoulder problems..yeah, film is expensive.)

The series currently uploading to flickr are from a batch of about 500-600 quickie prints from the local fotomat..remember those? Ok, it wasn’t fotomat but they are 4×6 prints that you get to anticipate and look forward to picking up, then go through roll by roll in order of how you shot, reliving the trip frame by frame. By now, my batch is crazy messed up with initials on the back of friends favorites..and probably missing a few.  I have only scanned about 1/3 of them, of which this is about another 1/3.  Then add in the digital. Nice to have a project.

Wendy

NYC Images on Flickr