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The best part of the day was a little 8 block photowalk in downtown Covington Ky. Below are a few shots from the walk.

I got out and shot a few and I couldn’t decide on one, so you get 5!

This is at an old closed carry-out.

An older one that was on the card, from a faculty outing.

More bathroom stuff.

This is at our new building, my first self portrait there! That’s Mark Cela on the right. His Site

This last one is from the Family Trip to the Zoo. Mmmm, Blurrrr!

Some Polaroid and rainy day play!

So here’s looking at you! A little macro self portrait and a little frightening!

Minimalism – A twentieth century art movement and style stressing the idea of reducing a work of art to the minimum number of colors, values, shapes, lines and textures. No attempt is made to represent or symbolize any other object or experience. It is sometimes called ABC art, minimal art, reductivism, and rejective art.

So a couple of things have happened in the last few weeks.

First, I’ve had some great discussions’ about photography with a colleague and a few photographers from twitter. Discussing everything from the history of photography to criticizing and critiquing photography. This has caused me to finish a few of the various books and magazines that I kept stacking up for a rainy day.

The second thing to happen was a colleague let me borrow a camera. Now as a rule my favorite camera is the one in my hands and I’m no snob, I’ll shoot with anything film or digital. I’ll write more about the camera, after I’ve put it thru its paces.

So, I’ve got at new (to me) camera and I need something new to shoot! Here is where the whole Minimalism thing comes into play. Like I said I’ve been reading a bunch and apparently the article on minimalism stuck. I say this because as I’m driving to work one morning with this new camera. I find this wonderful lonely lamppost, accompanied by this fantastic sky (imo).

What I took from the article was, clear your head and try to examine your location with new eyes. Make the most out of where you are. If you look, there is always something to shot. This is the image I ended up with.

This was done today with a pinhole body cap on a digital slr. The exposure was 4 seconds, that’s why my 5 year old is almost ghost-like.

From our “Fathers Day Photo Walk”.