Two weeks and I am still going strong on this ‘photo of the day’ thing! They say after 21 days it becomes a habit!
After attending the Holgas and Coffee workshop this past weekend, I saw something that caught my eye at Art From Scrap. I photographed it with the Holga, but we haven’t gotten those images back yet because of the developing process. I don’t even know if the image came out.
Now that is sad – am I so used to digital? Has the ‘instant gratification’ bug gotten hold of me? I am a professional photographer, should I not know that the image was absolutely correct? One would think . . . but one was/is playing with 2 variables that are complete unknowns on this one: the first was shooting with a Holga camera, whose shutter was sticky and is notorious for light leaks, and the second is developing film in coffee.
So back I went – there was a pinwheel wired (and duct taped) to the fence around the parking area to Art From Scrap. We didn’t have pinwheels like this when I was growing up – or if there was, we never got one.
Am I reliving my childhood? Does it even work? With all the string caught around it, probably not! Does that matter? Not at all. It is about the possibilities, it is about the color, it is about the shapes, and it is about what it once could do . . .
TODAY’S IMAGE
pinwheels
camera type: Canon EOS 10D
lens type: Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3, 59mm
exposure: 1/3200s @ f/5.0
ISO: ISO 200
post-production: Lightroom 2.0
location: Santa Barbara, CA – on the corner of Garden and Cota Streets, Art From Scrap