Is it crazy to think time doesn’t move in one dimension, linear, always forward? Are our thoughts real? What is a memory if not you’re mind and consciousness traveling through time? If it can travel backward, can it go forward?
I may be crazy, but I believe there is some validity in this. I’m not smart enough or have the language to properly express how this works, but I believe in it, at least in some fashion.
Pictures have the ability to transport us back in time. We remember the scene, we relive it. Both as our past self and we also see the scene now as our present self. We take pictures to communicate to our future self, so that we don’t forget, so we can relive that moment and experience the joy, the pain, the sense of awe or whatever we were feeling when that moment occured.
I’ve been looking through my old photos and remembering how much I enjoy photography. I need to get back into it. I haven’t been shooting or taking my camera with me because it was usually more effort than it was worth. My back would ache the next day just from carrying the camera. I wouldn’t be able to get the shots I wanted because it would be too much effort to move around or to get into a position where everything is just framed the way I like it. I would get light headed and dizzy if I crouched down and stood up to quickly.
But now I think I’m ready to start shooting again.
All that to say here are some random old photos that I dug through that I wanted to post but never got around to it.
I’m messing around with off camera flash and colored gels:
I’m in New Orleans for my bachelor party and I’m messing with this DIY bokeh effect filter that I made to create fleur–de–lis bokeh.
(I thought it might have some useful applications in wedding photography switching out the design for hearts, stars or snowflakes or something. But I never really perfected it.):
I’m experimenting with infrared photography (I know trying IR at night…really smart right? But at least I’m trying to think outside of the box):
I like the ghostly glow that the lights make although there is a bit of post processing to get it to look right. I never really found a useful application for it though.
Here is a more traditional approach for IR black and white photography:
Notice how the leaves are white, if this was a traditional black and white photo the leaves would be a darker shade of grey
The “Beasts” of Oakland
Photography by Rex 