Yeah, I know, it isn’t my usual photographic elegance, but I just liked this one:

And hence I posted it.

And imagine my surprise when I saw this mere feet away:

A simple, classic composition.

Occasionally, I leisurely pass through the archives and find things that have slipped thorough the cracks. I don’t have time to look at every single photo and sometimes, there are just too many of them that I can’t get through all of them, so I just forget.

Well, the computer lets me know when it is time to do some house cleaning and that is when I find these hidden gems. For example, I went to Florida. Oh Florida, sweet Florida. How I could photograph you everyday, forever and ever and ever. I defy anyone not to love these:

I made the background extra lush because I thought it was called for.

This one I took and I thought “god, there are so many things I could do with this one” but then I never did anything with it. Until now:

This is some kind of adventurer. I don’t even know who, but as it was Florida, I wanted the faded family vacation feel to the photos.

Next up, another old favorite. Ripping off Walker Evans, were he to shoot in color:

That is from Everglades City that has appeared up here before, but I liked this one with the mixed up colors.

Final two are just so random. The face is from Sweden, the factory type thing from Baltimore:

Good finds in the archives, eh?

I do like the shapes created in this one and its general flow.

OK, a little bloviating here. Usually I just post and don’t write, but here there will be some explaining. Yes, I realize I already took the photo above once, but I do photos again and again and I wanted to get it perfect, so I took it again. These other ones, well here is the explanation. If you have ever wondered where my ideas come from for my photos, they come from visions I get of memories or dreams. I know, that’s a little vague, but here is the example and then I will tell what the inspiration was:

I made this one and I thought “those were the lights the morning I left for college” or something like that. Or this one:

“and that’s the room we used to have parties in.” Draw what you will from this one:

It has that morning after a party feel to it too. Anyway, I really like these.

I am not a huge basketball fan, though I know this was Kevin Garnett. I did love this pose in the window. There was something kind of wonderful about it. More:

I always look at old color photos and I love how off the colors are, with the passage of time. I try to infuse my own photos with that:

Yeah, swung the camera around and followed these people. Yeah, these are the weekend photojournalism attempts.