So ever since I started making photos in 2012, I’ve got a book of my best photos printed each year to give to my parents for Christmas. I get a copy for me, too. And nowadays, I post them photos from that book online. And here we are! We begin in New York.
You can look at photos from previous years in review here.
This is actually one of the very few large format photos I took. I really need to do more long exposures.
(Oh hey, just noticed a big editing oversight in this photo. You see it?)
Melbourne, Australia
More photos from Australia are available here.
This photo was actually an accident! I was resting my camera on a balcony railing (I didn’t bring a tripod, oops) and I was doing the long exposure using the shutter button (I didn’t bring a shutter release cable, oops). And as I lifted my finger from the camera, I nudged everything slightly. Since the railing wasn’t flat, the camera only changed vertical pitch, and it made this awesome photo! I cursed myself at the time but once I got the film developed, I really like the results.
Washington, D.C.
More photos are available here.
Lausanne, Switzerland
So I actually don’t have posts up for my trips to Lausanne and Budapest yet because I’m really behind on my editing. But hey – just making this book takes weeks so.
Budapest, Hungary
Back in New YOrk, Baby!
So I’d taken colour film to Australia, and then Switzerland and Hungary, which is three trips in a row. That’s unusual for me – I’ve shot mostly on B&W for three years now. I noticed how I’d be drawn to the colour aspects of photography, so when I got back to New York I kind of just embraced it. The rest of the year is entirely in colour.
Starting with this photo which, again, was an accident that turned out really cool. It’s actually not a double-exposure, but the frame next to it on the film had been accidentally exposed directly to light for hours. This extreme exposure bled over into the next frame, which I later used to make this photo.
Aww Yeah, the Eclipse!
The Artsy Offsite
More photos available here.
So at this point in the year, I noticed that I was using fences a lot. Usually just to create layering in the photo. I was already using reflection in my photography, so I tried to combine fences and reflections, adding in some shadows too.
Earth!