The Photography of Brian L. Schiele: November 2013

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Weather

I fished the Weber River recently and while I didn't catch any fish, I did manage to get this photograph that I feel captured the day well. It was an early October day and we experienced a number of different types of weather from rain, to snow to seasonally warm temperatures to seasonally cold temperatures.

While I have fished the Weber before, I hadn't fished this particular section, so I enjoyed fishing this new section.

Brian

About me:

My main interest in photography involves using a "toy camera", a Holga specifically. It's a primitive camera when compared to today's digital cameras. It's largely plastic and uses icons instead of scales and numbers for focusing and aperture numbers and it has only one shutter speed. But that's a small part of its appeal. There is this idea in art, called "wabi-sabi" that celebrates the beauty in the imperfect and the unconventional. Using a Holga, I am able to make photographs that are the essence of "wabi-sabi", because with a Holga you often get light leaks and photographs that aren't as sharp as they would be had I used a more conventional camera. Depending on the subject and the composition of the photograph, the light leaks often become a compositional element in the photograph as well as part of the wabi-sabi of the photograph. My photography is film based, it's not that I eschew digital photography, it's just that I enjoy the entire process and the intimacy involved in shooting film.

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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Rockin Cowboy...

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Weather