More of a scrappy Michelle

Here's more of the photos from the Michelle scrapyard session in early October. There are two different cameras and several different films. The images from this ramble are spread across several blogs over several months because of when I developed the film. I suppose if I were a considerate blogger, I'd have waited till they were all ready to be shared in one big blog, so you wouldn't have to think about the narrative, or work to see the flow. Then again, maybe there will be a book.

I remember going through that scrapyard with a buddy looking for some particular metal for something or other. The details are lost in time. I was not surprised to see the no trespassing signs. I'm pretty sure that with nice light, it would be a great setting for a photo session.

This is one of the lessons that some photographers find hard to learn. Putting something pretty in a picture doesn't necessarily make a good photo. Several of the photos of Michelle are not what most people would call glamorous. The photos from the visit to the scrapyard, for example. There's a vibe to it that I love. I've done some prints of those, and there's one I want to tweak some more.

I'm so fortunate to be friends with Michelle. Either of us can propose a photo idea, play with it a bit, and then make it happen. A good photograph should make the viewer feel something, or engage their attention so that they do more than glance at it. The B&W are more about texture and mood than anything else.

I was having coffee with one buddy who has appeared exactly once in all the photos published on my blogs. I'd love to do a photo session with her, but she doesn't like having her photo taken. I wouldn't do a made up glamour image for her, because that's not particularly her. I've got something else in mind, and I think it would be stunning, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for her to agree.

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2. This is what she was so interested in.

3. There are any number of science fiction movies where something emerges from a scrap heap. I waited, but alas.

4. During the ramble after the scrap yard. The location is obvious.

5. A not so obvious location, but along the Bow river. I've got a printing idea in mind for this one.

6. From the same scrapyard tour.

7. I know perfectly well this camera and lens flares when pointed at the sun or a really bright light, but I haven't figured out exactly when or where it will appear. I thought I had the camera in the shade of a telephone pole, and there wouldn't be a flare.

8. We really liked this faded red phone booth. The film captures that red, and her red hair perfectly. I admit to thinking about the Superman changing in a phone booth thing, starting with the jeans and raw sunlight look, and then emerging from the booth in an elegant gown, with some light modifiers to soften the light.

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Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Film Kodak Gold 200

From an autumn walk not far from home.

Linda and Newfoundland

Polar bears

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did

Which reminds me I haven't done anything like this for a while. Maybe in the new year...

90 days, or so ago. October 5.

During a visit to Canmore to meet up with my friend Susi and her husband Mike. I somehow hadn't known there was a river walk through the middle of town.