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archive photo of Dominion Fruit building - 2008-04-26 17:28:52
| Friday's trip to the museum archives turned up limited information on the Dominion Fruit building. this is photocopy of an undated photograph of the building. interesting to see that other than the now broken windows and vacant appearance it has changed little. the building first appears on records in 1948 and it seems it was occupied by Plunkett & Savage a division of Dominion Fruit until 1980. at Friday's photo lesson Stuart suggested that one of the reasons my building images are not sitting well with me is they are shot with the lens at 18mm and this wide angle is creating lens distortion and slightly wonky and unsettling building lines. tomorrow morning i'll go back and shoot the building again at 40mm and from a higher angle. on a different topic - this week i read an article by photographer Sean Kernan called Parsing the Good where he talks about what goes into making good work. Here are two quotes from the article. "I learned that when an artist goes at his work with a ferocious focus and power, that very power attracts. And that attractions embeds itself in the work itself and draws in others who come into contact with it." ... "Good work changes the mind, a little or a lot. If it is 'good', if it is alive it means that the photographer had to get into a state of alive awareness, had to see what the casual viewer, the non-artist, would probably not have." This gives me something to strive for - ferocious focus and alive awareness while photographing. |
PENTAX K10D 1/60 sec f 4.5 Flash: Not Fired |