Vision 5: Bringing it outdoors

I've been spending a lot of time indoors lately. 

From a hike + from our house. In-camera double-exposure panoramic.
I think I can safely say the second exposure was not on purpose.
February 2014.

Vision 4: 4th of July, 2007

I have to admit, I could care less about fireworks. 

July 4th, 2007. 1019 Santa Cruz, CA

Vision 3: Summer

Tomorrow is the 4th of July and it should feel like summer.
We lived in SF for 2 years. Some days the sun peaked through the fog. We got rain, wind, fog.
But we never had summer.

Summer 2011, San Francisco, CA

Vision 2: Arata Pumpkin Farm OCT 2012

Trying to recreate the feeling of the first time we went here. I pushed it. Charley was sick, but I insisted we go get lost in the maze like little kids. That feeling no better captured by some funky expired kodak and my old minolta 35mm. Vision: trying too hard to find recreate a feeling. 

Vision 1: Starting in Mexico, Feburary 2014

I don't think we got to see the real Mexico when we went down to Los Cabos, but we did get heat, ocean, coconuts, and swam with whale sharks. I was reluctant to take photos, but was lucky enough to capture a few things while we were there. Setting out on my vision today--thinking about dust & what could possibly have been going through our whale-shark tour guide's mind on that little boat out in La Paz.

31 Visions: A quest to see things differently in July

As a photographer I feel like I always have one foot in the present and one foot buried deep in the past. I collect moments. Instances. And a lot of times they just sit there. I don't share a whole lot of personal work out-right. It makes me uncomfortable; the internet is overwhelming, and let's face it, everyone these days is some sort of photographer. And most days I'm not sure I'm much better than anyone else, but I guess that's not the point.

I currently have close to 4 TB of images on my hard drives. My archive dates back to 2005, almost 10 years of photos. I have been shuffling through all this work these last few weeks, trying to clear things out, trying to simplify. And rather than just continuing the cycle of shooting and editing and archiving, I am going to start an experiment of putting myself out there. So here we go--the working title for this is "31 Visions".

In preparation for my trip North and vision quest in August, each day I will attempt to have a vision. Knowing full well that this project will likely change as I go, my intention for now is to use old work as a spring board for a new way of seeing. Each day I will post a piece or series on here and then set out to take 1 image that tackles the feeling of that old piece. Maybe this is a retrospective project, pure nostalgia, or maybe it's a rediscovery project. I really don't know, but I am putting it out there. And when I say 1 image, that's what I mean. Just 1. At the end of the month I will develop and scan and see what happened. I'll let you know how it goes.

Waiting

I feel like I'm suspended in the middle of this long warm winter.
Just waiting.