Southeastern Exposure

Road Sign, Crumpler, North Carolina 2001 © jwl

I was blessed with a visit from Angelina Krahn last week. She came by to look over the Southeastern View photographs and chat with me about them. I must have made a good impression, since she has put her thoughts down in the online edition of the Shepard Express. You can read what she thought of the show here. I will spare no expense in thanking Angelina for her efforts. I can hardly live up to them.

Feel free to come see for yourself, there are only two more weeks to see the work in the gallery.

I just came home from work listening to music (3:30AM). RFTC to be exact. After parkng the car outside the house, I continued to listen to the whole record. This being said, there is no question why RFTC is going down as one of my favorite bands of all time.

The man. JR/Speedo will be performing with his new band The Night Marchers in Chicago this May. Damn right, I will be there.

New Ideas

Wall Painting, Chicago, Illinois 2008 © jwl

Jackson & Wabash, Chicago, Illinois 2008 ©jwl

Here are two of the new images from my recent visit to Chicago. You may or may not see any difference in how I work, but this new batch of photographs were very liberating.

Trying New Things

I am in Chicago for a couple of days. I brought along some cameras and an experimental attitude. This will sound like a no brainer, but I am spending time with just the camera and some high speed film. I am letting the camera meter determine exposure and I am simply pointing the camera where they need to go.

Reading over this and writing it makes me feel like a jerk, as though I would never let myself shoot so freely. Well, I usually don't. I have a way of working that I am really happy with and I feel that the results do me well. I just want to step out of MY box and start from somewhere else. Funny thing though, by planning the film speed and the no-meter attitude I am still kinda in MY box.

There is just a control group to how I make my photographs that is inherent with how I see the math and the science of photography. This way of working and, more importantly, this way of working out process questions is probably why I didn't choose to paint. My brain is just a little too structured for it.

So much for the confessional, I just wanted to let people know that I am working on some new things with a new way of finding them. Hopefully there will be something to look forward to.