Cast Aside
I take the picture
I point the camera
that’s it
the subject is usually in focus
it remains as I found it
I resist the temptation
to get it into better light
resist the temptation
to add to the scene
or take away from it
I don’t seek perfection
but let things
fall where they will
stationary in a context
that I didn’t create
the broken chair
the mattress still wrapped in plastic
never used
cast aside
I take the picture
the subject tells the story
the picture tells you
nothing about me
I’ve blogged a few times about how my relationship to world was changed by my cameras. I started taking pictures when I read that blogs with photos get more hits. I didn’t want to use photos I found on line – copyright mainly but also I didn’t want to spend time hunting down the right photo.
I have a decent eye for composition but I am a point & shoot photographer. I didn’t want blog of typical images which forced me to be more selective & almost fetishistic in what caught my lens’s attention. Texture & pattern are my prime subjects – texture found in things usually thrown away – shoes, clothing, toys, dishes etc.
I love finding cast off doors, art, empty frames, bathtubs, aquariums, ironing boards & specially lps. Or objects one wonders why they have been thrown away, or perhaps left for the scavengers. I hav passed stuff on my walk & it was gone on my return in less than an hour. But with bed bug scare somethings just remain until garbage men remove them.
The pictures I post on my blog are somewhat random. I don’t look for the right picture to go with the content – too much work. I figure people will make their own story around the pictures anyway. Because, as the song says, every picture tells a story. But the pictures here rarely tell you anything about me, even when they are pictures of me. 
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