When You Leave

Well since this is the first post, I may as well make it a substantial one.  I've had a project completed and printed for about 6 months now, but it has yet to see the light of day.

Its a rather simple idea, which actually proved to be very challenging. To explain it, I'll just tell you exactly what happened in my noodle.  I left for work one day and I forgot my wedding band by the sink.  I realized about half way through my day, but I never really gave it much thought. When I returned home, I saw it there waiting patiently on the counter top. All of a sudden it had a personality, and I felt guilty for making something feel so alone.  Now realizing it was a rather childish thought, I decided to humor it anyway.  I wondered if I would be able to photograph it, and capture that emotion of being alone, that is where the challenge came in. With people its quite easy, the human face is so expressive. But an inanimate object, and especially a very small one, was time consuming.  Once I managed to photograph the ring, I wondered what else would be possible.  I also decided that I was not allowed to leave my apartment for this one.

So here they are, in no particular order, the seven I came up with.

 

 

 

Now the last photo is one that requires additional attention. It is the odd one out of the bunch.  The previous six we're all quite self explanatory,  I guess to some degree anyway.   I will let you be the judge of that.  This last image has almost no life, in fact I think you could almost call it dead.   I wanted to try and give the hint that there is or was some kind of personality there.  I also wanted to maintain the same emotion as the others, and this turned out to be the epitome of sadness. 

This blog will not just be about photography, but for my entire mind, 

a way for me to slow my scenery down.