Water Photos

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ClaremontPhoto

Jon Claremont
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The 'Water' photos for the exhibition at the city hall are almost ready.

1 Still life of my washing machine. (Very Lise Sarfati style)
2 Still life of my kitchen sink.
3 Guy washing down the sidewalk.
4 Public toilet, without people.

Still to go: Bottled water at the supermarket, and sewage treatment facility if I can get access.

This city is very prould of the water supply, and my photos will be on display next month.

Has anybody got any good suggestions for water please? But I cannot do a river or a swimming pool.
 
Hmmmmm.....Does your city have a water tower? Always an iconic image. How about storm/drainage sewers? Reservoir? Sounds interesting, in spite of the sturm and drang that's erupted.

Good luck.
Don
 
Jon I find this highly offensive!


But seriously.

I'd go for a group of youths drinking bottles of water vs the stacks of water in the shop.
Got old public baths? The types with big stone wall fronts - maybe an image of the huge entrance if you do. Don't go in with a camera though.
 
Your city wouldn't have an aquaduct still would it?

Rain, perhaps dripping off a roof?
 
Is rain too obvious Jon ... something we have had far too little of in this country of late! :)
 
I think Jon doesn't see much rain either. :)

Water in industrial process.
Taking a shower.
Water doing its eroding work.
 
Mmm. All great ideas. I'm living in a region with a serious drought, way inland, some photogenic fountains with no water, and I need another couple of photos for the exhibition.

Taking a shower sounds good if I can get a model.

Perhaps a cute kid drinking a glass of water?

Or a carwash with 1/15 exposure and tons of blurred spray?

City hall workers digging a hole in the road to get to a water leak?
 
do you have lawns? And are people watering them this time of year? Golf courses?

Drinking fountains.

How about industry? Plenty of industries use water. I'm sure someone at the local water utility would be able to provide assistance, because they deal with water in ways us regular folk ever think of. Cement plant - "Redi-Mix" or whatever your local version of delivery concrete might be. A bottling plant. Unless you draw your water from a well, you surely have a purification plant before it enters the local supply. If you do use a well, you surely have a pump house where the machinery is housed.

No ofense, but images of the kind of water use we see every day is fine and all, but if you can show water being used in manners and volumes that escape our attention, it might prove to be educational as well as artistic.
 
In my neighbourhood, and all over Ontario, I see water wasted by people spraying their paved driveways with water to wash them. Makes me shake my head, knowing how precious water really is and how so many take it for granted.
 
RML said:
How about you using water to rinse your films and/or prints?
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I try to use as little water as possible when processing film. I use a non-hardening fix and use the Ilford wash method.
I don't wet print, but that would certainly require more water for a proper archival wash.

Peter
 
FrankS said:
See if Jenna is available.
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You are obsessed. Yours was the first report by the way. Much old school dignity mixed in with that teenage boy spirit may I say?
 
RML said:
How about you using water to rinse your films and/or prints?
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Some years ago (probably 15-20), someone here in Toronto actually did a photo-essay around the Toronto Harbour area using the water at each area as the _developer_ (nothing added), and it was scary how many of the pictures came out.
 
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