As you can see by Gabi’s expression in the short amount of time that I have had the camera I am beginning to get under people’s skin with my constant click-click-click ambushes but for now I cannot contain my compulsion and while likely continue my photographic assault on my family and friends.
Anyways, the camera has been a bit of a creative awakening in me and I and finding myself energized and re-invigorated about how I see the world, something that I haven’t experienced since stopped making art and music some 11 years ago. I’m finding the camera framing my view and I’m searching for balance in motion, depth, color, and weight in everyday scenes.
Above is a shot of Gabi during our commute to my parents house before work. I had been playing with contrasting her near absolute stillness with the blur of green just outside the car when we passed by a farm where the fence seemed to just cut perfectly across the picture. It seemed to add a counter to the deep grays and warm pinks in which she was nestled. Pure luck.
I can see you’re busy planting the seeds of teen angst. “And when I was just a few months old he wouldn’t stop clicking that damned toy of his in front of me!”
Ha, that’s like the shot right before the paparazzo got slugged!
It does kind of look like she is about to go all Sean Penn on my ass…and, yes, I have been saving for her therapy.