Photographer's notes: I rarely shoot on speed priority ( I usually go with aperture priority) but for this shot the speed really was the priority! 1/500th of a sec, at f/8 exp. +1/3, ISO 200.
Outside my house there is this honey suckle bush, and the snow from the roof overhang driped onto the high branches. Water trickled down the entire bush forming icicles all the way down. It's a beautiful sight, but there are two things I struggled with:
1.) the beauty in it's entirety cannot be expressed in the two demensional frame of a photo. I decided it would be a more powerful to focus in on a small, integral part of this sight.
2.) a photo is a still frame, the beauty of this lies in the constant motion and development of it's existance.
The beauty of capturing a moment is that, we have the ability to imagine the before and after. We experience time and again that things are constantly changing, nothing lasts, tomorrow will not be the same as today. We are facinated by the possibility of capturing what we cannot hold onto. Time, a smile, a wave, a rainbow, love, the list goes on. What would life be like if we could bottle these essences of life?
I decided to photograph this Harold Edgerton style-he's the one that captured the image of a drop of milk that makes a crown, and other high speed photography- in the hopes of taking advantage of the tendency we have to see the before and after. To contrast movement with stillness. Enjoy.
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