Floating Leaf 3

I like this picture because only the leaf is blurry. There are some very distinct lines visible in the leaf because of the shift and play of the light with the blur. I took this leaf series in a few minutes because I needed to get to work. My dog starting barking at me because he could see me from the window. I had to yell back at him to stop. The leaf kept moving, back and forth, sometimes coming very quickly towards me. I could walk all the way around it. Another magical small moment in an ordinary life.

Floating Leaf 2

Trying to capture the leaf in a still image and getting that lovely iPhone blur instead. I like the comma shapes.

Floating Leaf

This leaf was attached to a single spider web strand that was about 10 feet up connected to a tree limb. I was looking out my bedroom window and this lone leaf was swirling around but never falling to the ground. I wanted to capture that as best I could with my camera. Video probably would have been better here, but I don't have that yet, so this image and a few that follow must suffice. I saw this in the morning and by the time I got home from work it was gone.

SC Big 7

Last of the USC construction series. I liked the numbers, the calculations, the big 7. These images and the ones I took of the train car really do inspire me to paint and layer numbers, letters, and random marks on a surface. Kind of like modern cave paintings in way. Will people in the future tear down our buildings and sift through the wreckage and wonder about the markings someone left behind? Will they wonder what or who a Mac Daddy was?

SC FE

Another beam shot from my USC trip. I really am liking the idea of random marks in random places becoming art by just changing the context ofthe way we view it. I have framed this random mark that probably means something like "front east" to designate where the beam went. This mark and Mac Daddy will disappear under the dry wall and paint planned to finalize the look of this place, a special collections library building.

Mac Daddy Wuz Here

Over two weeks since I have blogged. I haven't really taken any pictures either. No wonder I've been a bit crabby. Saw this while touring a building under construction on the University of South Carolina campus. I'm going to post a few more images from the trip. I like that people make their mark in this way. I don't like trees being carved into but this works for me. I don't know if Mac Daddy was in the vicinity when I took this shot. I hope he was.