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.
Day three of my week long series on ‘People of Color’. Her tattoos sang beautifully together.
Day two of my week long series of ‘People of Color’. I like plaid people. I wish more
people were plaid.
This week you get to see sketchbook drawings again, woo hoo! These are colored marker
drawings I have done over the years. I drew, then colored, the people.
Most will have symbols and images familiar to those who have seen my work over the
years. I would love to know your thoughts on those symbols and the drawings in general.
Last of the week long series on portraits.
