John, I spent some days walking around a pair of buildings I wanted to
shot, in april. Walked around with a paper notebook, compass, map and
took some reference shots with wrong light and little effort. Not every
moment of those days I spent scouting - played chess nearby, stood there
and watched the people coming and going, waited for friends come out to
go home. My intention was to return and do it properly.
I understand there is a hole in their place. I intended to return
between september and october that same year, and extend my trip well
into the winter. One of these days I'll post some of the reference shots.
As I said, glad you made it. Sometimes we just can't dream of the
changes. Or stop the nightmares after they happen.
LF
John Sessoms escreveu:
From: Luiz Felipe
Great shot - glad you made it. One of the places I scouted to return
and get the shot is not there anymore...
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John Sessoms escreveu:
I've had this image in my head for about 30 years now, and have
never been able to do anything with it until now. Never would
have been able to do this with film.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/3214812646/
That kind of happened with this shot. This church is a couple of
blocks around the corner from my house.
I bought the house I live in about 35 years ago. The winter with all
the snow storms that led the city to enact their gotta' have chains or
4WD if you go out in the snow happened soon after.
I was walking back home from where my car was stuck when I saw the
church surrounded by the snow with a full moon rising just off to the
left. It's an image that stuck with me.
It doesn't snow much in Raleigh. I'd tried to get the image on film a
couple of times when it did, even though that meant waiting for years
on end until a winter when we had a snow storm. But I could never get
a decent exposure ... there's just too much tonal range for the
latitude of film. I did try combining different transparencies making
masks using lith film, but it was just too much for the limited
facilities I had access to.
In the meantime, the front lawn of the church has been replaced by a
big parking lot. They added a private school there, so the parking lot
gets scraped as soon as the snow stops so the parents and teachers
have a place to park when the school re-opens after the snow.
The shots from the angle I wanted to shoot from don't have snow in
front of the church. I can probably clone it in, but I'm not sure how
I feel about that.
From this angle, you don't see the giant sea of asphalt.
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