Gatorland
Posted on June 4th, 2008
In an act of possibly sanity saving slackerness, I went to my favorite contemplative spot yesterday. It’s an oddly bucolic, visually perfect little pond buzzing with dragonflys, loud frogs and turtles. I say “oddly” because it’s also just over the hill from a gravel quarry. The warning tones of dump trucks mix freely with burps of frogs. Still I like it.
So, squatting in the reeds next to the pond I saw an ant. I then proceeded to take 57 photos of this ant. Not at all surprisingly, most of these pictures sucked in a large way. But the goal wasn’t really to get a good picture, it was to stop thinking about other crap. Which I did. Felt stupidly and inanely zenlike. I loved it.
Stopped on way home to take pictures at South of the Border. Amazingly rundown, cheesy and skanky looking place. Picture taken through bug-splattered window of car…
There’s an old abandoned Firego gas station on I-95 in sourthern Virginia just off the highway. This is from the second time I stopped there about a week ago. I’m getting a bit obsessed by it I think… Still haven’t captured what I want to get from the place but getting closer…
I fucking love this picture. After battling with this flower a couple of times, I just could not get a shot of it I liked. Finally, got a series from above that really showed it to it’s best. Another plus is that this looks great on the Japanese fine art inkjet papers I’ve been wanting to try out…
Another shot from Umstead. Lichen or fungus, I don’t know. Very nice colors though…
