dailyphotogame2021

Jeremy Green “Private Thrill” 12/12/21

This parking garage was my home base for several days recently in LA. Although I did not sleep there, I spent most of 3 days and nights in and around there. I was mostly working alone, and my rental car was usually the only one occupying the upper levels of this brand new building. It felt like it was my own private space. While waiting for the elevator one night in a very spaced-out frame of mind, I looked down over the steel and glass railing and felt a pang of vertigo; but the perspective, tones, graphics, and color gave me a private thrill and a sense of place.

Jeremy Green “The Electric EAT” 11/22/21

This sign was on a wall in a seating area outside the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s museum restaurant. This image was made with the iPhone 12 Pro Max’s wide angle lens, which is equivalent to a 14mm lens in 35mm format photography. I should have known that this is actually a work of art by the famous Pop artist, Robert Indiana, and its title is “The Electric EAT.” True to Pop art’s tendencies, I was fooled into thinking it was an actual sign. During Robert Indiana’s childhood his mother owned a diner, so there you go. 

Jeremy Green “Meanderings” 11/12/21

Something trippy happened while editing a recent image I shot on assignment for the City of Austin’s Art in Public Places. The art is a humongous aluminum sculpture entitled “Meanderwing” by Marc Fornes/TheVeryMany, and it’s been recently installed at Austin Bergstrom Int’l Airport. I was contracted to shoot beautiful images of beautiful artwork. I love that. While applying a mask to sharpening in LR as usual by Option/clicking the mask…boom…whoa. Oh I think I like this. The piece’s serpentine meanderings came into stark relief. I made a screen shot for reference and then recreated the look in Photoshop, adding back in some of the original tonality.

Jeremy Green “Mr. Bollard” 11/2/21

Walking around Kansas City a few weeks ago was fun. What a pleasant surprise to discover a new city. This bollard had a stainless steel top plate with a rather beautifully designed lift handle for removing it. I love and admire well designed and machined metal tools. As I stared at it, it seemed to be staring back at me. “I’m a bollard. What are ya gonna do about it?”

Jeremy Green “Reach” 10/13/21

We got home last night from a road trip. The trip was an open-ended affair. We had no agenda, no goal, no nothing. We just went north. One stop along the way turned out to be Bentonville, Arkansas where the The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is located. We stayed at a supercool art boutique hotel called the 21c Museum Hotel, which is completely strewn inside and out with modern art. Coming out of the elevator, I was struck by the setting sun streaming through a window onto this hand printed wallpaper…flypaper! I reached out to touch it and got a new perspective.

Jeremy Green “Head Space” 9/13/21

Took a little trip to San Antonio this weekend for some R&R. Staid in a fancy hotel. When the hat landed on the chair, I thought it needed to be photographed. The only thing I can figure is that the incongruity seemed oddly worthy of recording.

Jeremy Green “Light Entertainment” 9/3/21

At a little motel next to the highway in the Texas Panhandle, it can get a bit lonely. In this tiny corner of the world my room had this lamp and a view of the overpass out the window. The drive out there was too long, it was too late, and I was too tired to turn on the TV or read, but the corner of the room provided light entertainment.

Jeremy Green “Random Sighting” 8/24/21

The camera is always in my bag for the random opportunities to create a picture that expresses or alters my point of view. Something has to get my attention to start with, and in this case, it was a plastic globe at a car dealership that I was walking by. The blue ball was mounted to the ground on a long bowed rod with a spring at the base, so that the globe would gently bob in the breeze. At a distance it did what it was supposed to do as an attention getter, but upon closer inspection it seemed a bit rube Golberg. Its place within the architecture and the way the shadows were falling seemed uniquely perfect in the moment though; so I shot a few angles. Editing the picture was mostly a process of eliminating anything that I didn’t like in the picture, and the result changed my perception of the subject at hand. The difference in size of the ball to its shadow seemed to insinuate depth more to me now, as if it’s bouncing into or out of the picture…but maybe it’s hovering.

Jeremy Green “Woodwork” 8/14/21

Recently a Maryland friend invited me to follow him out to his Delaware country place to pick out a big walnut plank for me to take back home for a furniture project. We picked one out, and we planed it in his woodshop while listening to loud music, drinking strong coffee, and smoking stout cigars. It was joyous but tiring work. I sat down in a ratty old chair to rest and cocked my head back for a second. Up in the rafters I see saws.

Jeremy Green “RLT” 7/15/21

This is Tanya (AKA Tanya Jane, TJ, Tanya Babe), who is a disciple of RLT and is my best friend. Red Light Therapy (RLT) is a therapeutic technique that uses red low level wavelengths of light to help skin cells heal or recover from various degrading conditions. Tanya has been putting her faith in this lately. Such a good friend lets me play, but the little ears poking up are all Tanya. This is someone who is quite comfortable in her own skin, but she keeps working on it. Keep the faith.