I am challenging myself to a new project. A project that many others may be attempting as well. My friend Susan is also doing this. She is a few weeks ahead of me and also a fabulous photographer. The bottom line is to document your life, day by day, in photographs. What better way to see what a year looks like and to remember it in the future. From the mundane to the special events, the following 365 days will be captured in this blog. You are welcome to join me on this journey.
The Level IV Photographers took a field trip to the Gold Coast Railway Museum. I would have carpooled with someone, but since I needed to be somewhere with my family at 7 pm, I figured I better drive by myself. So I situated myself with my phone plugged in, with Google Maps navigating the way, my Beatles tunes blaring and a bottle of water for the road. Good thing for that bottle of water. It was so hot and humid at the musuem, I went through two bottles and poured another over my head to keep cool!
The museum has been there since right after World War II. Originally there were dirigibles in a huge hanger there -- six of them -- that would fly over the ocean seeking U-boats. It makes you think . . . it wasn't all that long ago when that war took place. True, it was before I was born, but only 10 years before I was born. Not really ancient history. But then it was turned into a museum of rail cars. There were streamlined cars from the 1940s and a fancy schmancy one that was used by many of our presidents, including Truman when he held up the newspaper that announced that Dewey won!! There were cabooses and military hospital cars. And, you could walk into most of them.
I was most intrigued by the remnants of buildings against the color of the sky. I have another series of black and whites images but I am saving them for a potential exhibition.
Instead of jumping into my car and rushing home . . . I still had about a half an hour to myself . . . so I wandered down toward the water and a very small park, I believe we call them pocket parks. I had always intended to stop here to shoot but was always heading somewhere. This was not the ideal time of day to shoot because the sun was in the wrong place. Yes, the photographer is always seeking the source of light. But these are images that I made so I am sharing them.
On Saturday I started another photography class. It has been quite a long time since I have been in class, but I felt like I needed a refresher and some inspiration. Of course the first class was not photography, instead it was a three hour lesson in Photoshop. Still, it was inspiring to be around other photographers and see their different levels of expertise and confidence. I was quiet and listened a lot. We spent three hours working on a photo, and we all worked on the same photo. I did learn new techniques with layers. The trick is to think in 3D. I am posting both the before and after images here for your comments!
Born and raised in a seaside town 50 minutes from Manhattan, Jody Leshinsky was always surrounded by family, friends, and the arts. Jody always found a need to document the events that shaped her life so that she could look back and remember. Armed with a Brownie camera and then a Kodak Instamatic camera in the 60s, she eventually graduated to a Canon AE1 in the 80s, a digital Sony in the 90s, and now a Nikon D40 and D60
In 2008, Jody was coaxed into a year-long experiment by her best friend. Project 365 is a blog that challenged her into making photographs on a daily basis and selecting the Photo of the Day to upload and blog about. She continues this blog, now and then. The end result was discovering that there is always a photograph; you just have to see life through the lens of a camera.
The Level IV Photographers took a field trip to the Gold Coast Railway Museum. I would have carpooled with someone, but since I needed to be somewhere with my family at 7 pm, I figured I better drive by myself. So I situated myself with my phone plugged in, with Google Maps navigating the way, my Beatles tunes blaring and a bottle of water for the road. Good thing for that bottle of water. It was so hot and humid at the musuem, I went through two bottles and poured another over my head to keep cool!
But then it was turned into a museum of rail cars. There were streamlined cars from the 1940s and a fancy schmancy one that was used by many of our presidents, including Truman when he held up the newspaper that announced that Dewey won!! There were cabooses and military hospital cars. And, you could walk into most of them.
