"i go out walking after midnight..." and i go out walking at sunrise too. to catch the light.
i've been collecting images from my walks. its just odd stuff. but i like it.
it was in 1973 or so when my friend bill heiden, a wonderful photographer, and friend told me that you only needed a single roll of film to get all the great shots at a concert. well - we were teenagers then, and it was one of those grand statements that you make out of nowhere. a fact you made up because you could. but the idea of limitations and self-imposed restrictions rings true for me to this day.
available light is all i use. there was a time i used the flash - for actual photojournalism assignments or hopeful placements (and i was successful at this). but as you know, using a flash results in a flat image more often than not. i'm not talking about controlled lighting - i'm talking about that thing on your hotshoe.
available light on the other hand makes the game exciting.
here are some shots from twilight time... dawn and dusk.
daybreak over my backyard
bird houses at daybreak plus 5 minutes
these beautiful birdhouses are no longer there. the man who owns that house tore down his fence and covered the drive way with a wide swath of cement, making me think he's bought a boat and made a parking space for it. he still has those and dozens more brightly colored bird houses hanging on the wall in his garage. dare i ask him if i can photograph that wall?
flowers have long been a favorite subject for me. this was shot at daybreak as well and the photo looks so much better to me than the flowers, which were oozing with snail trails.
the whole purpose of my 6AM walking adventure was to photograph the union 76 ball before it was taken down.
that is gone now, too. where would our memories be without photographs?
there are more images from my 6AM photo adventure at pedestrianation.
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