On a leaf gathering expedition I didn’t think that we would find enough oak leaves or that they would work really well when frozen. Sherrie liked them so I put them in the bag anyway. It turns out that they gave me some of my favourite frozen leaf pictures so far this year, including this one.
I spent a good day in Halifax on Friday. Getting up at 4 in the morning was surprisingly easy. I guess it tends to be easier to wake up when you’re in and out of sleep all night anyway. It’s always like that for me when I have an unusual day the next day. I’ll drift in and out of sleep until it is finally time to get up. Sherrie got to her meeting pretty much on time and I had a lovely morning in the city. I wandered around the waterfront taking pictures. Within five minutes of starting I had a guy come up to me and ask me about my Through the Viewfinder contraption. He was nice and seemed to get the concept of it. I spent most of my morning though at the art gallery. I was really impressed by its size and the quality of the exhibits. Some of my favourite pieces though were things that some of the kids and youth that they’ve worked with have created.
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All this Through the Viewfinder stuff has me seeing squares. When I’m going back through my images I see some compositions differently now.
It’s been really windy the past couple days. Wake you up at night windy. This morning we went for a walk at Mavillette Beach. It was cold enough that I had to put my toque on for the first time this season. Despite the cold though, when we got there there were a bunch of guys who had just finished surfing. They were packing their boards back in the cars and taking off. I was kind of disappointed. Although you hear every now and then about these winter surfers around here, I’ve never seen anyone actually doing it.
Part of a multi-year project of shooting leaves that I collect and then freeze. This shot combines that with my newfound interest in shooting some Through the Viewfinder images. I like the analog/digital touch of through the viewfinder and I think it fits well with my frozen leaves series. The series is at least in part about memory, the things we shed and the things we keep. The combination of the old and new cameras in the production of one image seems to further the theme.
This morning I’ve been sorting through some of my older images. I’ve deleted a lot. Processed a couple. I don’t get back through my images enough. It’s not that I don’t enjoy it, quite the opposite. I enjoy going back through what I decided to record. I like finding images that have kind of slipped from my memory. It’s like seeing them again for the first time, or as though someone else has taken them. I should do this more. I guess it’s just more interesting to be out shooting or processing recent images that I’m excited about. Probably as the weather continues to get worse, I’ll end up editing more. So be prepared to relive summer images as we move toward winter.
