I've been planning to start a photography blog for the longest time and just haven't gotten around to it. I'm a photographer, not a writer. I think Georgia O'Keeffe said it best when she said " I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way-things that I had no words for." So with that in mind, I'm going to let my images do most of the talking. I'll also be quoting Georgia a lot--her retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art probably inspired me more than anything else ever has.
This is an old photo. In fact, it's a film photo taken back in the mid 80's at my favorite little mill pond in Setauket, NY. It was my favorite hangout in those days. I would stop at Pathmark and pick up a few bags of old bread to feed to the ducks and the geese. After all of the bread was gone, I would walk around the pond taking photos. These were the years immediately after graduating from Stony Brook when I was living and working in Port Jefferson, NY. Those were great days and probably the very beginning of my love of photography. I was shooting with a Minolta Maxxum 9000 at the time, which I still have tucked away in the closet.
Flower close ups have been and always will be one of my favorite subject. I do remember a bit about the day I took this photo. I remember that it was late in the day and the light was fading which is probably why the dark green background came out black. I like the drama that it adds to the photo, especially with the orange on black contrast. It's been 20+ years and I still love this photo.
Now that I'm feeling all nostalgic, I'm going to have to dive into my old photos and find more pics of my favorite little pond. I'll take a little trip down memory lane and share some of my first photographs.
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