Gatorland #2
Posted on June 7th, 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…
