Notes from the road. A project.

[luiman]

Thank you Robert and Stefan! I go twice a week in the afternoon. I only shot during the return trip that lasts about 30 minutes. Photographing only to return is another rule for this project. 🙂

PS: Square format is a discovery for me.

 

[luiman]

From 2014/05/13

From 2014/05/13

12

 

[Bingley]

I'm really enjoying this series. Among the more recent ones you've posted, I particularly like No. 9 (echoes of Henry Wessel). And No. 12 above could easily be the agricultural country near where I live and work, in central California.

 

[luiman]

Thanks for the feedback, Steve. I did not know Henry Wessel: very interesting and reminds me some things by Robert Adams.
Your remark about agricultural country in central California makes me reflect on the recurring qualities of the landscape itself when it is modified by man. This is another interesting point ...

 

[barnwulf]

As I have commented in the gallery here, Luigi, I think that this is such a wonderful idea and I have enjoyed looking at your excellent photographs thus far. I agree with Lynn that putting images up someway to view them side by side over a few days or a week is a very useful method of editing photos. I think that unless you have a close deadline the editing will happen in due time. The better images will show themselves eventually and I am looking forward to seeing more. - jim

 

[luiman]

Thank you Jim. I'm picking the photos (proofs) of this first selection in an album to keep track of the work in time. I have no deadline, only the duration of therapy (which should be six months). I completely agree on editing at the end. Not all the photos shared in this thread will be selected, but I find the comments and criticisms very interesting because they allow me to reflect on the direction of the project.

 

[luiman]

From 2014/05/13

From 2014/05/13

13

 

[helen.HH]

11

My 'eye' is caught between the symmetry of the towers, the whitwashed buildings and the sway of the foliage ..yummy Goid One !

 

[luiman]

Thank you Helen. Symmetry made ​​me stop in that place and it seemed to me easy to compose in the square...

 

[Harry S.]

Crisp exposures!

 

[luiman]

Thank you Harry S.!

 

[luiman]

From 2014/05/13

From 2014/05/13

14

At the beginning of the project I thought to be very selective in sharing these images. Then I realized, thanks to your comments, that editing is to be done at the end, when one has a panoramic vision of the project itself. Therefore you will find in the following some similar images, as this one. I'd like to have your feedback also on the choice between similar images. I guess this project will become a "participatory project"...

 

[RichL]

Nice work thanks for posting it. I think similar pictures are good, as long as they aren't repetitive. If you take a picture of power lines similar to the one above but they are going through the hills then another with the ocean in the background you're telling a story of travel not simply repeating yourself.

 

[luiman]

Thank you RichL for looking and commenting. I agree on the repetitive motifs (ie power lines, sheds, rural houses, etc.) which can tell this story under construction. Sometimes I doubt between two photos of the same subject taken in different times or viewpoints. Perhaps the ultimate editing will decide...

 

[luiman]

From 2014/05/20

From 2014/05/20

15

 

[lynnb]

I will repeat the comments I made in the Gallery here, in case people viewing this thread don't visit the Gallery:

(re photo #13) "probably you saw this intuitively: the tall grass stems echo the pylons, adding organic notes to their orderly rhythm. This series is going well!"

(re photo #15) "Life's rhythms seem slow here, like the sluggish water. I like the diverging vanishing points and your eye for composition with the bend in the road echoing the bend in the channel. Nice tones. A worthy addition to this series, Luigi."

 

[luiman]

Thank you Lynn. This project become maybe a story where a single frame is perhaps less important than the whole. I also began to give less importance to the composition of individual photos to look for a common thread to the journeys along those roads.

 

[luiman]

From 2014/05/20

From 2014/05/20

16

 

[lynnb]

(re photo #16) I like this repeat of the theme from your earlier picture in this series, of the channel and road diverging towards different vanishing points. The picture border becomes a floating frame in space, through which the channel and the road pass, from behind the viewer and forwards into the distance and then out of the frame. Another well seen composition. Very satisfying, Luigi.

 

[robert blu]

(re photo #16) I like this repeat of the theme from your earlier picture in this series, of the channel and road diverging towards different vanishing points. The picture border becomes a floating frame in space, through which the channel and the road pass, from behind the viewer and forwards into the distance and then out of the frame. Another well seen composition. Very satisfying, Luigi.

I like lynnb analyses, and I agree...bravo Luigi
robert