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Fruits of (Walking) labor

November 27, 2020 O.

So I finally got back the pictures from walk the other day. In the age of instant gratification, it took lots of patience to wait to see how everything turned out. it takes a certain amount of letting go, to have to wait to see the fruits of your labor a week later. Knowing that you cannot control the outcome of the choices you have already made. How much of everything that we do is like that but we just don’t recognize it right away? When we are able to do some thing and see turns out right away. And then be able to change and try again seconds later. Of course some of the pictures turned out fine, but trying to do double exposure didn’t work out the way I pictured in my head. But gave me motivation to learn more about how to do that and look it up. Looking forward to trying to do some double exposure photography in the future and see how that turns out. And now I might be better and waiting for the results.

All images below were taken on a Brownie Hawkeye camera, 100 ISO Kodak T-Max BW film

Image of the cemetery on Main Street (formerly named after a confederate general)

Post office steps (you may recognize this view from the last post)

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November walk

November 17, 2020 O.

For the first time in a long while I went for a walk. Just to go out and get some exercise. With a chill in the air, I was cozy in my cap and fingerless gloves, and it was nice to walk with my thoughts. I took with me an old Brownie Hawkeye camera with a load of film. It is a fun puzzle to try to look at your familiar surroundings in a new way. What is different and what would you want to capture and share? What do you want to get people to look at? Walking around with clouds in the sky giving shadows at intermittent times forced me to think and look at the world differently. With the low speed of the film I had to not only pay attention to my orientation to the sun but also whether the sun was peeking out of the clouds or not, all factors that would affect the outcome of the photo. It gets you in tune with the world around you in a different way, and maybe we need to take time to do that. To look at the world with a fresh take and at a different pace.