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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Thursday, March 3, 2011

The title is from the fact I always forget to put my keys in the "key box" we have hanging by the door and I end up running late to work because I can't find my keys.
The key chain is from a trip to Oregon, same one yesterdays vineyard photos are from. While walking around Portland we came across the Deschutes brewery in Portland and if course stopped in for a pint.
I think I heard somewhere that Oregon has the most breweries than any other state.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

It Takes Time

Sometimes I take a picture and when I get home and put it up on my computer screen it just isn't what I am looking for. So sometimes I forget about them and stumble across them later. That is not what happened here. I know myself well enough that I know I change my mind so I take an image and make it my background image or throw it in a folder that I have set as my screen saver then over time the image grows on me or I see something in it I didn't see before. And that is what happened here. I can't take all the credit for coming up with this idea I actually saw it in a documentary about a photographer whose name escapes me right now. She would print her pictures and then hang them all over her apartment and see which ones she grew to like and which ones had to go.

I took these pictures almost a year ago on a trip to Oregon. We were staying at a B&B in the Willamette Valley and this was the view from our room. Initially I didn't care for the images very much in color or black & white. The image with the fog burning off in the valley just comes up on my screen and I see something in it I hadn't seen before. I think I can do something with that. Then while browsing for that image I see this image with rows and rows of grape vines and the sticks they are tied to. I think this could work as a more abstract contrasty Ansel Adams inspired image. So after trying to get the blacks and whites as close as I could get them the way I saw them in my head I cropped it down to take the extra junk out of frame. And then I re-cropped to get some interested in the foreground (composition, composition... I know I took a class or two on that at some point).

I hope I didn't see something in these images that wasn't there...

I don't get down to Hampton as much as I used too but I drive down once a week, on a good week, and go into the office and if it is a real good week I get to have a pint after work with my friend Hal, check him out on his blog @ weaverwerx.

He is actually writing an article for Veer Magazine that includes the pub from my post yesterday and his post as well.

But back to these photos. On my way to Sarah's I passed my old mechanics shop and I remembered these photos I took a while back so I thought I would post them. Hope you enjoy.