Mangos and Peaches

A couple of weeks ago I purchased a book on photography. The book is filled with a wide variety of different photo projects that are geared towards “kick starting your photography” as it says on the cover. I was flipping through it in the bookstore, much like I normally do, glancing at all the different chapters and projects the book explained. I had a longing for some photo inspiration and even though the internet is a great place when looking for inspiration, I feel it lacks direction. And I like having a direction.

Basically I was looking for a “teacher” without actually being taught anything. I like to figure things out for myself, especially when it comes to being creative. So I purchased the book and I’ve selected a few photo projects to start out on. This set of photos is the beginning.

I set out to create something interesting from something I see everyday. If you take the same route to work everyday, your brain becomes so accustomed to it that it pretty much drives itself and you stop noticing everything on the way. If you eat the same food everyday, you become so accustomed to it that it stops tasting like anything. So I took this wolverine doll that sits in my room and took it outside. These photos were taken using the street in front of my house as a backdrop. It is a street much like any other, nothing really special, and I positioned Logan on the mailbox & on the trunk of my car in an attempt to keep things simple and straight forward. I treated these photos as a way to “look” at things differently with the help of a camera and keep things interesting.

There was no real re-positioning here, I just moved myself around the figure and changed my angle.