Walking with Friends

Took a little walk-a-roonie

Busy week and I’m heading out to Bar Harbor for the weekend so this will be brief.

I took a photo-walk with my friend David (click this too) at Fort Foster in Kittery. It was mellow and nice but there was a high school field trip at the fort so we had to make a lot of effort to avoid the dreaded teenagers.

I’ve been really focused on color lately. I’ve been binging Wong Kar Wai movies on The Criterion Channel. None of the photos I’m sharing today have ANYTHING to do with WKW or his very specific aesthetic but he is a master of working with color (or his cinematographer Christopher Doyle is) so I’ve been thinking about color a lot. If I wanted to shoot like WKW movies I would have to find some seedy night markets with deep red and green lights everywhere. Instead, I’m stuck with beautiful New England landscapes and ruins.

I’m always chasing perfect greens. Greens are really hard. If you shoot grass and leaves on a bright, sunny day your greens will look like a tennis ball. Because of this, photographers for the past few years have been DESTROYING their greens. They de-saturate the greens and make them look weak and gray. I hate it. I love deep greens but I’m never fully happy with them in my own photos. I always feel like I’m getting close but not quite getting there.

This was a good cloud day.

The crumbling fort stuff was cool too.

Anyway, it was a cool day. I highly recommend going on casual little rambles with your friends and taking pictures of stuff.

I’ll be back next week with some Bar Harbor content.