The spirit of Gingerbreads Past
Winter Greens
"I love winter. You can see everyone's faces."
- Emile Dirks
I miss Whitevale.
Yes, that is referring to the one and only Evan Taggart.
Pato and I's first date, February 6th-ish, Toronto Island.
Nuit Blanche?
Farm
(Warning: Treetops at work!)
Mom as a tree.
I really like the vertical (and third last [horizontal]) photographs of trees. The cat one, too, is beautiful. It's the same technique that I've excessively complimented you for in the past, where the framing of a scene somehow renders scenes as flat shapes, creating an almost non-objective effect.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, Alex! That's high praise because I really admire your photography too (although I haven't seen as much of it as I would like lately... maybe I'm not hip to where it's now being stashed in the world of social media). I think my trick is to frame a shot so I include as much as possible of whatever pattern or shape I'm interested in and as little as possible of anything else. Maybe because I choose things that are already really geometric, textural or linear or whatever and then remove the context it starts to look flat. What do you mean by non-objective? That it looks made?
ReplyDeleteNope, I haven't been uploading photographs anywhere. In fact, I haven't posted any photographs for a long time other than functional/perfunctory ones on Twitter. I've been meaning to post Deep Madder Symposium photographs, for instance, for a long time, but keep procrastinating. I'll link to it on here when I do.
ReplyDeleteI mean that it looks like a non-objective photograph, in that the subject matter is mere shapes, not objects found in the real world. It's like said photographs objectify their subjects, rendering a tree as merely lines and shapes, sheep as puffs of white, etc. Like, I almost forget that the pictures of trees are of trees, and not merely random ink blotches or something.
These are great - thanks for sharing. Did Pato eat all that icing?
ReplyDeletethis gives such a nice sense of you both. i like.
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