35mm ƒ/3.5 at 1/8000 ISO 1000

Nevada Wier likes to say “there is no such thing as boring subjects, just boring ways to look at it,” or something of the like.

I was at the park yesterday feeding some non-attentive stuck-up ducks with my godson Samuel. I can be a pretty arrogant shooter. Oh that’s not worth it or that’s a pretty boring water facet. But really, even if it’s boring I can still try to render something interesting out of it. Because in most cases the subject is interesting, I just don’t investigate it enough – I don’t appreciate it enough to even give the subject a chance.

So ducks and a water facet were my ‘boring’ subjects for the day. Something I needed to look at closer. Pretty typical subjects, but I needed to embrace it none the less.

If you get in the same rut, try making your shutter faster or slower. Try using other apertures that you aren’t used to. Get down on the ground – up in the air. Just don’t do what you usually do.

Because there are no boring subjects, just boring photographers.

35mm ƒ/3.5 at 1/640 ISO 500

Power lines have always found a way to be in my shot. It’s the proverbial thorn in my side. Nothing like a great landscape – natural and surreal – and there is a 50ft metal frame with wires connecting it to yet another metal tower.

I figured, if its always there, perhaps I should just shoot it. Make it the focus.

Maybe it will make some sort of statement….. I think there might be a project in the works here.

ƒ3.5 at 1/1600 sec ISO 250

ƒ1.6 at 1/5000 sec ISO 250

Why was it reflection photographs that interrupted my dry spell?

Intriguing that the subjects that fascinate me in the reflections are the same subjects that I am so bored with outside of the reflection.

ƒ/14 at 1/50 sec ISO 200

Could it be that I am looking for a way to flip my world perspective upside down? Attempting to reverse it? To see something along my photographic path that wasn’t visible when I passed it, as if the tranquil pool of water held the past for a singular moment after it flowed through the crossroads on the present?

It’s an abstract thought. An abstract scene.

A representation of what we artist do within the great representation formally called photography.

It’s an abstract world that can be discrete from the one that is familiar. In this dimension I wouldn’t have a laundry list of shortcomings, sins or shrouds on my character. This world is in harmony; sky and land merged into one frame.

It’s something simple. Innate. Basic.

Running around seeking small puddles in these huge landscapes. Seeking myself, the person that I could be in alternate realities. These miniature pockets of reality existing within our larger realities.

ƒ/3.5 at 1/100 sec ISO 100

ƒ/5 at 1/15 ISO 200