Departures

Sunday’s open portfolio sharing at SPE was really successful. I ended up getting a potential show of my photograms/Lumen prints, and was asked about publishing them. I was, and still am, very excited about it. I wasn’t totally convinced those would be well-received, or cared for. After showing them at the conference and getting so much good feedback, it gave me just that much more motivation to continue them.Yesterday during lunch I went to a canal which has a little flowing water near the job site in Osgood. I didn’t find anything floating in the water, but I found lots of plants on the thawing muddy banks. I just set one out to expose about 15 minutes ago. It’s really cloudy and overcast and raining a little, so the light is pretty weak, but the whole spirit of doing these is experimentation, unpredictability, and serendipity.I’ll try to keep track of things on twitter if anyone is interested in somewhat of a live update to the exposures.Oh, and I can never settle on a preference of calling them photograms or Lumen prints, the term coined by Jerry Burchfield.