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A definite side-effect of spending so much time teaching photography
is that I now spend much more time photographing casually, either during
the
photographic workshops
I teach, or just to create more material for my classes. On this
particular afternoon, I was leading a field-trip for a 10-week photo
course, an exercise more focused on helping the students work through
the process of working with their cameras than making stunning images.
All the same, it is quite surprising to me how easy it is to make strong
images if one is just open to the possibilities.
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The field-trip was spent walking along the side of the
Petiticodiac River in Moncton, though my eye was not drawn to the
landscape but rather to the new bridge across the river and the rusted,
discarded remains of the old span. I have always had a fascination with abandoned and ruined architecture, and these spaces had everything I look for in a visual abstract.
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Over the morning, I vacillated between grand, sweeping images
of the underside of the new bridge, and close up details of the paint
peeling off of old rusted pilings. In some ways, such images are
sketches, designed to keep the eye nimble and open to varied
possibilities visually, but regardless the results have an edge to them
that really draws me in; a thread that runs through all my images is
present in these as well.
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