People, places and interesting artifacts from all over Florida. I am an explorer, and these are my discoveries.
Taken at Leu Gardens in Winter Park, FL - I really liked the strong abstract pattern of the shadow cast by this table, along with the repetition of diagonal lines. To me, this is a very satisfying image... something I can look at for a long time and notice new patterns, or how different things in the image line up.
A couple of people have suggested that I should have moved the chair that cast the shadow in the upper left... but I like how it throws off the symmetry.
Sunlight shines through blocks of colored glass inside the Annie Pfeiffer Chapel at Florida Southern College. This chapel and many of the buildings on campus were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright starting in the late 1930's.
According to Scorecard.org, this power plant is the third worst polluter in Palm Beach County, Florida - releasing thousands of pounds of harmful chemicals such as sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid into the air every year.
A diver returns to the boat after scraping a sponge off of the sea floor. This was part of a boat tour in Tarpon Springs showing what it was like for sponge divers in the 1930s.
This is part of a hiking trail in Wakulla Springs, Florida.
Looking back at this image, I start thinking of all of the different things I could have done to tell a story. What should be on the path? A person walking - slightly blurred to show some motion? A young girl walking towards the camera carrying some balloons? or someone riding a bike? or something more far-fetched, like a tiger coming up the path towards the camera? or a chalk outline of a person along with some police tape running across the image, as if someone had been murdered there?
That last one is gruesome, I know... but I'm just trying to show that the image above is pretty much a blank slate that could be used in many different ways to tell a story. Not in the same way that photojournalism tells a story by presenting events as they occurred... but instead by introducing people and/or props at the time the photograph is taken to create ones own story.
It's a matter of documentary versus fiction... so, where do I fit in as a photographer? Do I want to present real stories of the world around me, or do I want to create my own realities?
I think I lean toward documentary style photography/photojournalism - but could also see myself doing fictional projects just for fun.
