familiarity
by Kathy Wolfe ~ April 24, 2008
I’ve been thinking alot lately about style, influence of style and familiarity. I’ve been looking back at my old work and wondering what it is that makes me recognizable, familiar, set apart. The more I looked the more I became less familiar with it. What I did find was I like the unknown. It makes things more unexpected. However, as I was sitting outside with my son watching him play in his sandbox, which has become an evening ritual… I watched him and saw the same thing I see everynight.. OR DID IT??
The dandelions are coming out and we walked through the yard, picking them today.. made me think of a photo I took years ago.. so I dug it up. THis was taken 2 year to the day.. FAMILIAR?? hmmm.. what is familiar may not be if you just look at thing differently.
3 Happy Things.
1. Walking barefoot through the fresh grass
2. Ikea (gosh, I love that store)
3. Lost is on tonight.
~Kathy
April 24th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
You’re right. Absolutely right. Keeping things in perspective, keeping true to how WE see the world is important to us as artists and doubly important to our clients who hire us based on our unique vision.
I love your work. Stay true to you.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Our dandelions have just started to pop up too.
Love your thoughts on perspective and being able to recognize what it is that makes us all unique as photographers (and people).
April 24th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
yay! LOST is on tonite!!!!!
April 24th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
I’m so glad Lost is on tonight! My husband is sitting doing some work and we’re recording it. It’s killing me to have to wait for it!
I love that first picture (well, the 2nd too)!!!
April 25th, 2008 at 1:18 am
OK those are some very cool pictures!! I love feet shots and the color of the grass/flowers is awesome. The sun in the 1st pic makes is so cool!
April 25th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Kathy that first shot is amazing!! Great post too, makes me really think about the “ordinary” things that are constantly happening around us that really some day might be remembered as not so ordinary after all.
thanks for making me think this morning.
April 25th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I love both of these pictures so much. And it really is so funny how different we can see things… even if they never really changed..
April 25th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
The sandbox pic is my favorite. It is gorgeous with the sun shining thru. I love your style!
April 30th, 2008 at 8:20 am
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SHOT OF YOUR SON! LOVE IT!!!!!
April 30th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Love these, Kathy, and the thoughts behind them. Beautiful images, both!
May 6th, 2008 at 10:46 am
oh! your work makes me smile!!! thank you for sharing it!!!!!!!!!