Tulsa State Fair – The area behind the midway and outside the big expo building is a great place to see spaces and people in unexpected juxtapositions.
But don’t go there if you have a sensitive nose. It truly stinks!
Tulsa State Fair – 2008
I love groups of people that hold on to something. They are the keepers of the flame.
I like that there is a young woman in the midst of the older women. She will be those women in another 30 years, and will have handed down the clogging tradition to someone much younger. I love that.
Man, was this ever the stand out for me. What a great, innovative idea for a cake! As a designer, I love going through the cake display in general. There are so many creative decisions that are made (or not made) that make looking at the creations well worth the time.
One of the best aspects of the State Fair for me is the plethora of fantastic backs and straps. The design combinations are never ending.
I liked this one in particular because of the bright lime green X across the middle of her back.
Fourth in my high contrast series.
I really love this image, not so much because of the contrast, though I like that, but
because of the great moment it captures. That moment when everything is ready to go and
yet something or someone isn’t quite ready. Some are looking, some are waiting. All
the while we don’t know what is off camera that is causing it.
Third in my high contrast series.
This was my view as I opened my eyes one Saturday morning in 2006. I lived in my long
moved out daughter’s white wicker bedroom since my father was given my downstairs
bedroom when he moved in in September of 2005.
I loved the high contrast and cool air of that scene and I immediately woke up and got
my camera and crawled back into bed to get the shot.
Continuing on with my high contrast series.
Came to work back in 2006 to find we had a black out after a big storm. Couldn’t work
in my office since it has no windows and is in the tornado shelter hallway, VERY dark.
I walked around taking some photos of students studying under some of the emergency
lights that were on.
I did a photo shoot with her back in 2007 and witnessed what a vortex of activity and energy she
created while she was modeling. I kept having a feeling of watching a human tornado. I took
some photos around the house of objects, windows, etc. and put together this collage that really
seemed to play off this idea.
Number 5 in my week of American Colors.
I chose this one for the Fourth of July because it is the quintessential eccentric American scene. The guy who lives in this house is a golf fanatic. He has a mini putting green on his lawn, complete with sand trap, water hazard (off to the right) and a pin. In the background is Old Glory illuminated by the sun. Gotta love America!
I was sitting in a design meeting at OSU Medical Center in Tulsa and before it started I noticed the
big flag in the atrium intersected with the vertical blinds in our conference room. Easy choice to
take the shot right then.
