A Nod to Pictorialism

A few days ago I felt the urge to get out into nature and photograph something completely different than what I've been shooting, perhaps to keep in balance the photography yin-yang. Since taking a History of Photography class over a decade ago, starting me down the path I'm still following today, the images of the Pictorialists at the turn of the 20th century have stuck with me. They were strange, enigmatic, and beautiful. I also think there's something poetic about using a machine, that was a modern marvel at the time, to achieve effects completely contrary to that idea. Sometimes you've just got to get out there and do something completely different for a new perspective. It was good. I think I'll have to do more experiments along these lines.

Wonderdome Thunderhose-Day 5

Today I decided to take a completely different approach. I wanted to do something I hadn't done before to see what other possibilities the subject could offer. I reached into the art history bag and came out with Pictorialism, an early movement popular in photography at the turn of the 20th century. In other words, to knock some of the cobwebs off I put a cobweb-like material over the lens just to keep things interesting. It must have worked for me because I shot more images today than any other day.

Day 5 Stats- 3-4pm, 165 frames.