SoFoBoMo officially kicked off on April 1 - and I had hoped to at least have a theme for my book chosen by then, but other priorities got in the way. So, I'll be delaying my start for at least another day or two.
Here are the ideas I have so far:
- Make a series of abstract photos with large areas of solid color, that you might think were paintings at first glance. There are a few photos by Amanda George in the book "How To Look At Photographs" that inspired this idea. I'd love to see more of her work, but unfortunately can't find anything she's done online. This is the closest thing I could find in my photo library as an example, but it's not quite abstract enough:
- There are no expansive landscapes where I live - only far too many strip malls, billboards and gas stations. I could produce a series of photos that are a commentary on the visual clutter we're bombarded with in our cities.
- Make a series of photos of naturally occurring letters of the alphabet. Not letters that appear on a sign, but instead are formed by other objects - such as the branches of a tree forming the shape of the letter "A", or an "H" that's part of a chair. I'd also add in the numbers 0 - 9, for a total of 36 photos. I had read about a photography instructor giving this as an assignment to his students, and it seems like an interesting (but time consuming) challenge.
- Buy some film for the Voigtlander Vitomatic IIb camera a relative gave to me as a gift and use it to take a series of photos around town. It would be my first time using film since I became seriously interested in photography, and I'd like to see what kind of pictures come out of that old thing.
Of course, while I'm out and about I could very well end up working on two or more of those ideas at the same time - depending on what I see and how I feel about it.
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