One = enough
Feb, 2
Life is full of options -too many sometimes. It’s hard to find balance. We have so much more than we used to, and still, not quite as much as we’d like. Sometimes it even gets hard to do things we like -there’s not enough time, we don’t have what we need want, and it’s a cold and ugly Midwest winter. That was my excuse for photography anyway. I noticed though, somehow others still find the time, ignore the cold, and crank out great images regardless of where they are and what they have. So today I gave myself a little challenge… well it was more like a mandate. I gave myself one hour, on one bike, with one camera, and one lens. No zoom, no tripod, no flash, no bag, no backup, and in the overcast, Midwest, midwinter light. The only requirement was that I took pictures of something -and got a little exercise.
I found myself downtown… at rush hour.
But I found pictures. They actually were always there if I’d taken the time to look.
My only confession… it took me an hour and a half.
Get over it -what you have is enough… even in the big city.
Rob • February 3rd, 2010 at 19:33 EDT •
The third picture is a bit of an optical illusion. At first it looked like you were standing up high taking the picture looking down towards the ground. Then it looked like maybe the underside of a bridge being photographed from the ground.
I think I settled on the latter as the actual perspective.
Andrew • February 3rd, 2010 at 20:23 EDT •
You are right -it is the underside looking up. Actually it is the bottom of the train trestle seen in the last picture.