When I find my resting place, the place where I will live the rest of my life, I want to buy a super nifty camera and shoot it in black and white. I love color too, I love photography and the way framing something in a way it is not normally seen makes it new again. I love color photos of most places north of 45th parallel north.
I dream of visiting Maine, Reykjavik, returning to Ireland, Scotland and England. I want to explore the architecture of St. Petersburg and Moscow with my camera. The big sky country of Canada, Montana and Alaska call to me. I think if I traveled to New Zealand I wouldn't go home. I would get lost in the southern Andes and forever straddle the dividing line between Argentina and Chile. I love being in cold places where I can wear a warm sweater or coat. I love the smell of winter air and forests after rain.
I will most likely never visit the majority of these places. I've chosen to become a professor of Latin American literature, I've been accepted into PhD programs, and I will most likely go. If I do make it to any of these places, or return to those where I've already been, I promise to spend aimless hours with the land, camera in hand. For now, you'll have to settle for pictures of Eltopia WA, Culver City CA, and Wymount Terrace at BYU. Here's to our dreams...
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A childhood memory of mine is pricked by the shot taken in Culver City.(I don't know if it's facing E or W, I just know it's Dan's yard.) At the ranch in Enterprise there were three pictures which had silhouetts of western/cowboy scenes overlaid on a sunset. I remember the sunsets being beautiful, I studied and loved those three pictures. As far as black and white photography the content has to be compelling than a bench or a light. I love the symmetry of the sprinklers and the tree is very interesting; it makes me feel short.
Thanks Mom, I'll give up photography now. The bench and the lamp are my favorite photographs.
Yes. Let's go. I've had the same dreams, as we've discussed before, and I've dreamt that I was born near an icy shore where I would eventually grow up to wear a peacoat and one of the knit snug-fitting wool caps. I must have seen a movie that romanticizes that. Oh well, here's to Vikings and icy wind in your eyes! I think we should make it a goal to somehow combine our research trips so that we can make sure neither of us swallowed by the sound in the wilderness.
I love B&W photos. Reminds me of my high school photography days. Yours are loverly.
Wow. You have such a beautiful gift for photography, bro. Have you ever thought of entering any of these into a photography contest? I think they're incredible. I know, I know, "What would she know? She isn't learned of photography" (or much else for that matter) but your pictures move me.
-Chelle
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