April 2, 2005
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© The Author, 2005
One of my favorite hobbies of all time is photography. I’ve got an ancient Cannon AE-1 that I like to hit the streets and take photos with. My photography ranges in subject—it really is just a matter of whatever place I feel like walking to in a day, but lately my pictures have been mainly comprised of the little bits that make up my neighborhood. Non of these are stellar, but I like doing them and I thought you might get a kick out of them as well. I was inspired to post these by the great pictures on Sandiegogrl’s site.Sandie’s nature photography makes me smile, and perhaps these will do the same for you.
This is a house that my partner and I stumbled upon during a walk we took in early march. I think they are just a tad religious. ::smile::
I have a little mini series of mannequin heads. I think they are cute—if you look closely, they each have their own little vacant personalities.
This cart man was so fun to photograph—I have a few photos of him (if scanning weren’t such a laborious process, I’d post more), and he was a total ham for the camera in all of them. He stopped everything and shoo-ed his customers out of the way, just to strike a pose for me. I was hoping for a candid shot of him serving people from his food cart, but he wanted to model for me solo. Very funny indeed.
I don’t know why I think this picture is so funny. I laugh when I see it—it’s just a burger king toy blown up really huge to look like a big, intimidating statue. Perhaps I think its funny that a ferocious fat man could be burger king’s idea of a fun kids toy. Kid opening up his kiddie meal: “Ohh! I hope I get the fat scowling man!!”
A quintessential Chicago “el” shot. Lovely, eh?
I don’t have a foot fetish or anything, but this picture makes me want to sneak up on it and give it a good tickle. It’s way too peaceful—it’s just asking for it. ::smile::
Here’s a collage I made for kicks. Sometimes I do that with my photography—mix it with my drawings and other people’s work I cut from magazines on rainy days.
Comments (5)
great pics, and excellent work on the collage.
Autumn
Those are some great pics! There’s something I love about neighborhoods, the rhythm of urban life, so I feel like those pictures really give me a slice of your local lives.
As to your comments/questions on my blog: The camera/painting activity sounds like a lot of fun, and I think any group could use it to enhance creativity and thought process. My words don’t adequately describe the one student’s work with blending comics and paitings (well, I hope I do by the time I write the story), but it’s neat (and big in France, you say?) … as is the student blending graffiti (sp? it’s early) and painting. To see people in their college years trying to work out their own artistic style is very gratifying, and perhaps comforting.
This Oswego (the namesake of the one our your way) is a very quaint lakeside city of less than 20,000. To be honest, there is much potential here but also some archaic attitudes that hold the community back. Nevertheless, I see a lot of improvement and progress from the days in the early 1990s when it seemed like most downtown storefronts were empty; now it’s difficult for a retailer to find prime space where once only vacancies existed. I must feel positive enough about the city to have bought a house. The college (and its 8,500 students) really has a huge impact culturally and economically, another reason I enjoy working on campus.
Hope your dreams have improved, and thanks for the comments and questions … though I apologize for the rambling answers.
I love the one with the mannequin heads
Great pictures. I love the creasing where you scanned the first picture <g> The El shot is great. Very urban and the grainy-ness actually helps the picture.
I’m not much of a photog, but I was once married to one. My son has picked up the gene. I still haven’t learned how to post photos on my Xanga blog. It just hasn’t seemed important.
I like your new ID picture. Who is the cat? What is her/his name? He is a tabby like my enormo-cat Max. I love cats! We do animal rescue now and then and there’s a fresh crop of kittens in our alley. We’ve got to trap ‘em and get them over to a no-kill shelter.
Lynn
I was wondering if you would think about using the mannequin photo as sort of a “cover” for the front page of Sweaterbrain’s first issue? I’m quite taken with it.