After the recent eruption of concerts and concert photography for me (3 in 5 days) I was really happy to get out and take pictures of something off the stage. I hadn’t hit the streets in more than a week and the itch was definitely there. Tuesday, I had a good excuse and some motivation to get out and spend much of the day making images and exploring in the Chicago neighborhoods of Bucktown, Logan Square and Humboldt Park. It was nice getting out with another photographer for a change. We discussed styles and technique and it gave me an opportunity to think a little more about mine. Sometimes I will be asked to describe my work and I always have a hard time putting it in to words. Perhaps its because I don’t really think it matters how I describe it because I feel photography is like any other art and the style is decided by the viewer. I can only choose the subject. However, I did enjoy exploring the subject and thinking about it a little more consciously. I definitely made fewer images than a normal outing and I am happier with fewer of them but, the ones I like I am really happy with. So perhaps it did me and my ’style’ some good. Yes I am pleased but there is no way I am as pumped as this guy……..
happy. eight one seven photography 2010
23 February 2010