“A good photograph is knowing where to stand” Ansel Adams Today's project, the last of this year was inspired by the series "The Various Lives of a Soup Can by Rene Sheret. The images showed a Campbell soup can in different states of use and non-use. This lead us to define this project to photograph just one object from different visual points of view or different states. Below are the examples shot by some of our f8'ers John started us off with his iPhone series entitled "Telegraph Poles" his narrative follows “In 1843, U.S. Congress granted American inventor Samuel Morse $30,000 to complete an experimental project. Officials wanted Morse to prove that he could transmit information at a faster rate than anyone had previously achieved, which he claimed. To accomplish this, Morse laid underground telegraph wires from the Washington D.C. Capitol Building to a Baltimore railroad station. The two buildings were about 40 miles apart.” Joe who was not present sent his images entitled "Old Metal Toy" His narrative is below “As I was walking thru my yard up north today looking at all the fallen maple leaves on the ground, I noticed one of my oldest son’s old metal toy front end loaders from Christmas 18 years ago siting on a table cover with spider webs and leaves. With the wore and chipped paint and spider webs, I thought shooting with my 40mm macro lens I could get some interesting images that at first examination could look like a real abandon loader deep out in the forest.” Jim showed his series "Coil"...a metal coil used to stir liquids in the lab Cyndi showed a series of shots of a soccer ball we entitled "Soccer Mom" since the balls were used by her children and left abandoned in her backyard Steve shot a series from one site "Lynching Memorial" in Alabama Howard showed two series of two images...the first is an "Exit Only Sign" the second a random leaf. I chosed to show the exit sign images today Kevin showed 2 images from the side of a railcar ...one in color the other B&W Finally, Bill showed images from the Norton Simon ...
Rodin / Study of Pierre De Wissant 1884-1895 for Burghers of Calais / Norton Simon (Pasadena)
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