"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."  - Marcel Proust

Proust certainly had it right as far as artists of all stripes are concerned.  Painters, including Peggy Immel, were on the streets of Taos last Friday doing the "Sunrise to Sunset" challenge.  Exercises like these not only put the artist in the public eye, but force the artist to complete specific tasks during a short time period.  I was never very good at the typical challenge in creative writing classes of having to write on a given subject for two minutes and then stop.  Typically, one  sentence stood alone starkly on the otherwise blank page.  This week, I presented myself with the challenge of seeing things with new eyes, things that I have seen hundreds of times, by forcing myself to seek and photograph them in a different way.

By using the early morning, brilliant sunlight from the east, I was able to capture some interesting shadows of architectural details.  The first is of a column and adjoining balustrade. 

column and balustrade

Pieces of lawn furniture or the shadows they produce can make interesting subjects if shot in a slightly different way.

shadow dance

Porch uprights are, in their core, rhythm, and continually create shadows of different positions and lengths throughout a sunny day.

uprights on concrete

Taking Proust along with me, I discovered the possibilities in an old window being used as the top of a cold frame.  

old window

August is a bustling time of year.  Photographic possibilities are endless and sometimes are hidden in the most unusual places.

until next Monday,

DB

a passion for the image