District Twilight

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Parking Lot Ladies in Brightwood

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Three Hole Night

A wall at a Yachad house. www.yachad-dc.org

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

District Twilight on Slate

http://www.flickr.com/groups/shoottherecession/pool/

District Twilight got some shots posted on to Slate's Shoot the Recession Group! Check out the link above.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Monday, February 16, 2009

Urban Exploration is a past time enjoyed by many city photographers. The act is to sneak into a private or public area that has been long left abandoned and photograph the remains. The remains take on a beauty of their own, like this exploration I did in an unsaid location.

Glass Window

No Smoking

Stripes

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Parking Lot Mural

Where Have All the Porches Gone?

Antenna Trees

School, Bus Stop

Yellow House

A Note on the Photography

When I first started documenting the city, most of the photos were taken from the passenger seat of my colleague's van. Being a one-time apt photography student, I was at first hesitant to publish the photos at all. The shot composure was rushed and thus the framing was not always compliant with the Rule of Thirds that had been so strongly ingrained into my mind. Even worse, the exposure was left to the decision of my camera's sometimes mistaken automatic meter, leaving the photos under and overexposed and depth of field up to luck.

However, as I began to form the idea behind the photo essay, these aspects became more advantageous than offensive. The rushed framing, the quick snap of the shutter before we accelerated through a yellow light, was only more of a reminder that the images I was documenting were in fact transient. The over and under exposure only seemed to heighten the already wonderfully imperfect aesthetics of the subjects I was documenting.

Although now I go on explorations of the city both on foot and by bike as well as by car, I try to stay true to the energy of the original photos. Granted I play more with the exposure and framing when I am not a slave to rules of the road, but stylistically I try to remain consistent.