Photography

Photo: Sunset Johnson St. Bridge

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I know, I know… I’ve talked a bit ad nauseum about camera phone art… if it’s not can camera phone pictures be art? it’s a creative challenge to take your own poetic snap shot…

And now at a time when I should be blogging about Feist’s or Sarah Slean’s new album, or my Turner Block repurposing proposal, or my fellow FA 350 classmate’s proposal to help the homeless… I’m once more drawn to camera phone art… But isn’t it beautiful?

The Mayor of our sleepy little town, in my opinion, is on some crazed legacy binge and is tearing it down to build a new one… It’s a historic bridge, by Strauss and Company, of the Golden Gate Bridge fame… one of the last Bridges of it’s type on the face of the planet… and it’s on the path to demolition. So we can’t have heritage designation for a working bridge, but we can have it for derelict, rotting, buildings that create dead spaces in our communities? Failed public policy at work.

Well at least the photo is beautiful and poetic even if the future of this icon is sad and wanton.

Creative Challenge: Poetic Snapshot

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Creative Challenge Number 2

For the next few days, or for as long as it takes, I want you to really look around you when you are out and about. You are looking for something that speaks to you, that inspires you, that reminds you that you live in an incredible world.

Whip out that camera or camera phone that I know you always have on you and snap a serendipitous shot. Post it online and share with us what you like about it.

Here’s mine:

My wife actually gets credit for spying this natural vignette but I snapped the photo with my iPhone 4. I love dew, it reminds of childhood and playing in the grass in the morning. It reminds of spring and fall, the seasons and the passing of time, the poetic nature of existence…

So keep your eyes open for something that inspires you, take a snap shot, determine what about it moves you and share it!