Since the photo workshop, with the lawns cut, the electrical fixed, I have been scanning some of my old Kodachrome slides that are about 40 years old. For years I have been an advocate for the ‘the moment’ as the greatest gift in the process of seeing and connecting to the life around us. My strategies have been to show up in neutral, ready to receive, and when the moment connects me to the subject in a way that takes my breath away, I immerse myself in slow motion where time stands still and I disappear. All that exists is the subject that took my full attention. I practice for this moment so that it will stretch as much as possible. This is the reward. It fills me, aligns me and leaves me with a taste of profound gratitude. Usually I have forgotten to breathe so I am out of breath.
For the past days I have been revisiting some old favorite photos - dead cars that lead me into a life of photography. It is fun to feel the richness of color and stark sculptural presence they still have where their lives stopped in the environment. I can feel through the fog of time the thrill of discovery when I first found them. Today as I work on these images in Lightroom and Photoshop, I enlarge them to 100% and go into the moments like a window to clean the dust spots and sharpen the old lines. The result is a new freshness with these old friends. Now they are sharper, better exposed and in this moment digitally reborn.
I wonder what this does to me? It is exciting in a new way as I reconnect through time to these old friends.
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THe old cars look reborn. I love these images. I want to see more!! Somehow they speak to me. I guess it’s a combo of andy goldsworthy and classic car obsession. How much for a print??? I want to adorn the walls with these images!
THe blog is awesome…great way for us remote viewers to keep current. aloha.
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