western USA

From distressed manufactured wood to the real thing. This and the preceding image for the Game struck me as uncanny in their similarities of color and pattern. I like the shift in subject between the images and yet they share so much in common visually speaking. While we as photographers tend to embrace “quality” light, typically directional soft light at either end of the day, this image breaks those rules by shooting with the sun directly over my shoulder. This type of light – combined with a long lens – has a flattening effect, stripping away conventional dimension and in its place, relying on color and pattern for contrast. I always shoot with concept in mind, however, this concept was not so much what I shot, but what I chose, these two different states of wood.