I am a collector. I have shells, rocks, tree bark and more in boxes and drawers that I look through now and again for the memories and possible photographs. I also have salsify seedheads that I have saved from summers past.
Last month, I pulled out my handy piece of black velvet on my table and scattered the seeds. I photographed them over several days, in a variety of window light. The original version of this image was vertical, but my assistant John O’Connor had the idea of creating a pano version. The seeds on the right were originally below the main group, but John suggested this arrangement, and I said Yes! Two heads are better than one?! Thanks, John.
Enjoy! Bill
PS In case you missed, here is an article recently posted on Luminous Landscape: Thoughts on Ansel
January 28, 2010 at 6:59 PM
Bill, I saw them first in an issue of View Camera Magazine.
They are now published in the following monograph, which I believe is a catalog for an exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art:
http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Silver-Photographic-Studies-Caponigro/dp/1590052269/?tag=alargeformatphot
If you look at this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQYeKmmJA4k you will see that Paul Caponigro “doesn’t like technology”. Some of the still lives are also quickly shown, as well as the jars that I mentioned.
January 20, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Wonderful feel to this image. Its as if the seeds are just floating in air.
January 9, 2010 at 8:39 PM
Thanks for the comments!
QT, where did you see these images of Caponigro’s? Online anywhere?
Thanks,
Bill
January 9, 2010 at 6:20 AM
This is beautiful. It looks like wafting by a wind at night.
January 9, 2010 at 4:21 AM
its beautiful … nice work … i love that its utilising natural light …
GIna
http://fyneimages.blogspot.com/
January 8, 2010 at 10:23 PM
Paul Caponigro has also jars full of bits and pieces collected from the natural world, that he used to produce an entire body of work by arranging them in close-up images. What’s interesting is that in such compositions, one can still recognize the general style of the photographer. I don’t know exactly how, but I can identify your mark in “Seeds”.