Here’s what I came up with for the iPhoneography Challenge this week. I had taken close ups of a few things in the past few days – a dead bee, a flower, different textures – but nothing was working out the way I wanted it to.
At the First Friday Art Walk May 3rd I saw an small installation at gallery5 called Some Other Places We’ve Missed by Mark Strandquist. Check out his site here. It was a white wall with 6 sent of cards to take. The backs of the cards have the info – “During workshops and mailed correspondence incarcerated individuals are invited to choose ‘If you had a window in your cell what place from your past would it look out to?’ Participants provide a detailed memory from the chosen location and describe how they would want the photograph composed.” The front of the cards had the locations and composition requests. Photographs are then emailed and shared on the site and with the incarcerated. I’ll share mine here when I’ve finished all 6 and submitted them to the project. Check the site out and give it a go…
I took all 6 cards and started yesterday with a few shots at Byrd Park then headed to James River Park which is where I spotted this tree that had been overtaken with what is probably gypsy moth caterpillars (bag worms). They sure can destroy a tree and at the same time create beautiful webs.
The photo was edited with HDR FX (free version). Although not truly an HDR photo it does have the look I wanted from the edit. The original is below. Enjoy.
