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Jeremy Green “South Atlantic Light Show” 9/17/2024

The group of 10 photographers in the Daily Photo Game is predominantly made up of western Americans. Only two are currently located east of the Mississippi, and I think only two of us are originally from the East. I grew up on parts of the Atlantic coast. I know those parts intimately and have deep feelings and experiences oriented in and on the water there, especially on the Florida coast. It’s in my bones. This electrical light show silently passed by me one night there, and I needed to remember it, so I made a photograph. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr Seuss.

Jeremy Green “Night Moves” 12/18/2022

This is the resultant image of an idea that first came to mind in Big Bend a few years ago. I drew it on a napkin and then set out to create it. Like many  photography assignments, it required scouting. Once I found a possible location, it required me to get up the gumption to actually try to make it happen. The original idea was to photograph a car with its headlight beams shining up the road in a desert roadscape (my word). In the actual execution, I realized that the required exposure time would be too long to capture the car. I decided to let the exposure time be from the moment before a lone car entered the scene in the lower left until it vanished over the horizon. The stars were an element that I did not foresee, but it was pleasing. The best part of making this photograph was the private experience of being up on a hill in the middle of the night and in the middle of nowhere, trying to make an idea drawn on a napkin into a beautiful photograph. Except for the times when a car did come along (which wasn’t very often), it was so quiet that I could hear the blood pumping in my ears.