Trails of Light

A place will only look like it looks the moment that you are there.  Return as many times as you wish.  Things change.  Seasons change.  The light, no doubt, is never the same.

Of course I do return.  Over and over again.  Always trying to make something better.  Always looking to capture what I think it can be.

Beauty Salon Blvd. in November ©2008 Craig Ferroggiaro

Beauty Salon Blvd. in August ©2008 Craig Ferroggiaro

“I kept being sucked into the genera of the calendar picture, or something of that nature, and I couldn’t get away from it.  So I started to think about how I could rethink the landscape.”
Edward Burtynsky quoted from from his talk on Ted

You’ll have to watch the talk for his answer.  Mine is a bit different and comes in the form of a question.  How can I illustrate the simple beauty of the landscape without making calendar photos and all the while maintain an audience?  Or maybe how to create accessible beauty and not make kitsch?  That’s the question for me.  The answer is slow coming.

Dabney State Park ©2009 Craig Ferroggiaro

This is long overdue.  I want to have fun with my personal photography again.  So, for now, it’s no more projects (sans commercial work).  No more static website.  No more trying to photograph like this or that.  Just enjoying the process of making photographs and seeing what happens.  That’s how this whole thing started.  It’s time to regroup.

Fairley's ©2009 Craig Ferroggiaro