table top still life

I am drawn to vintage things, might be the trailer thing afflicting. This vintage clothes pin I found in a bag of the spring style pins we are all familiar with, the only one in the bag.  Been holding on to it for sometime, thinking about how to photograph it. So today I decided to go simple, just like the pin itself, nothing fancy, simple, distinct and bold.  It just works, just like this old clothes pin.  Standing on its own.

Time passes much too quickly, it seems like only yesterday I was starting my career as a photographer. I am very pleased that I still love to make images. Like a addict eager for the rush, I am easily drawn back to picking up the camera to get that high. While listening to Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac’s recording Landslide (circa 1975), I was inspired to create an image about time and getting older. There was no fancy studio lighting or Photoshop techniques used here, I simply opened up the f-stop to create a shallow depth of field and shot through my open fingers. The dream like light effect was the result of my fingers that were directly on the front of the lens causing the soft out of focus blur and the rays of light came from the table lamp that lit the scene glancing off my polished ring.