We went to the Disney Cove or something like that where we ate at the Hardrock Cafe and wandered the streets looking at stores, etc.
I found a number of images to collect while there and the ‘alter’ image came to mind due to the 3 lights and symmetry that I saw.
She was kind and sweet, with big eyes and beautiful skin. She was great at explaining
all the items in the store. She told us she was from the middle of Morocco, in America
to work and learn at Disney World as part of an advanced management program. She
kindly let me take her photograph in the afternoon light. My wife was thinking I was
taking too much time and she needed to get back to her work, but she was happy to pose
for me. We bought some rubbing spices for food and they were yummy.
Orlando, Florida February 2007
This week I am showing a series of collages from a trip to Disney World in 2007. Epcot Center was a great place to find inspiration.
The Chinese pavilion at Epcot Center in Disney World had a door that faced the
lagoon. The sun was setting on the other side of the lagoon and was streaming into
the pavilion at a completely horizontal level. It is odd to see sun that low coming
into a building. Usually there is something that gets in the way, another building,
trees, walls, hills, etc. But in this place at this time it was filling the room as
if it was a flood of water. I stayed there until it set.
The woman behind the counter was having a hard time looking at customers because the
sun was right behind them, hitting her in the eyes. I asked her if I could take her
photograph and in spite the blinding light, was happy to allow me too. I walked
around the room finding other elements and came across the buddha. I didn’t realize
it would fit perfectly with her, but I did feel it had the same dimensions. Later I
was pretty dumbstruck to find that with virtually no manipulation the two faces
matched up perfectly.
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 find that I love taking high contrast images so I thought I would share a couple for the next week or two.
This was our favorite breakfast diner, where my father and I would go each month before we had our hair cut. Sometimes we would go after, and actually it isn’t usually at dawn.
But the place is packed with locals wanting good food and a crew of waitresses who say ‘hon’ and ‘sweetie’ when addressing you.
The last day of my week long series on ‘People of Color’. Give feedback and tell me what you thought of the series and which series has really stood out over the last few months.
Day four of my week long series on ‘People of Color’. A regular customer of mine at the restaurant where I worked for many years. I didn’t mean it to be such a flat, graphic image but something about the lines on the sheet and pillow started me in that direction and it slowly built from there. It wasn’t stylistically consistent with my other work at the time, but the subject matter and the stripes definitely were.
I don’t know if she ever saw this drawing or not actually.
