The last photo, of the statue with an orange perched atop the vessel it is holding, was taken in Chicago, along with the photos from the previous post. All of the others were taken around Newport, where I live now, and Cincinnati, just across the river.
I have a fascination with spaces. I love the interactions between structures, trees, or land formations, and the empty spaces they create around them. I try to capture those spaces in my photographs, but don't feel like I am always successful about it.
Apart from making photos of interesting spaces, I like to document strange and interesting objects or locations I may find. For instance, the statue with an orange atop its vessel, or the bridge which seems to come from and go nowhere. Sometimes, as with the bridge photo, the strange or interesting location only exists because it is a photograph, with certain parts included, and other parts left out of the frame of the photo.
Perhaps the most successful photos I make are the ones which combine both an interesting space, and a peculiar detail of note. These would be photos like the tire tracks in the dirt or the expanse of grass and trees leading the viewer's eye right up to what logically has no place in the photo, an interstate expressway. Of course I try my hardest to make these successful photos, but I simply cannot allow myself to pass up a photo of a space which has no strange features, or of a strange object presented without any great contextual space around it.
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