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Jeremy Green “Ocotillo Zebra” 7/30/22

Necessity is the mother of invention, but it can also be the seed of genius. In the Big Bend area of southwest Texas, providing shade is an art form. This is my spot all this week. This kind of broken shade, made by laying readily available ocotillo across overhead beams, is perfect in that it blends hard sun with coal black shade. It’s visually stimulating, yet it’s also soothing. It’s loud and quiet at the same time. Even a gringo can sit outside for long spells enjoyably.

Jeremy Green “Haywire” 4/21/22

It must have taken a genius to create something this crazy. The sunlight gave this structure pattern amid visual chaos, and to me the photograph has the feel of an illustration. I shot several different images at this place and time of day, and I like them all. 

Jeremy Green “Tropical Ramada” 06/21/16

The entrance to our place on the beach in Florida is a partially shaded alcove filled with tropical plants. The slats overhead provide broken shade and partial exposure to the frequent Florida rain showers. I’ve always loved this space before you enter the house. The hard light and striped bars of shade have attracted my camera’s attention often. There are flowering tropical plants growing up the walls, and small lizards find it a haven. It’s a welcoming space. The symmetry of this leaf from a nearby plant became the subject of my photograph, and the bars of mid-morning sunlight on the textured stucco wall, softened with shallow depth of field, provided a complimentary backdrop. It seemed fitting to snap up the contrast in black and white to accentuate the graphic design of the image.