evolving

It took me years to feel that I’ve finally established a distinct style of my own in beadwork.  I know that style is still evolving and becoming more unique and more me every day.  But with my recent start into photography I’m starting over again.  I look at my recent photos and I can see myself experimenting in style.  It’s interesting b/c I can see the photos that were influenced by people I know whose photos I really enjoy.  I can see my old style and preference mixed in with their influences.  I love that.  It’s fun to realize the process and makes me more excited to go out and shoot another roll of film.  This weekend while up in Chicago I’ll be finishing organizing the photos on my computer and putting the hard copies into a holga photo album I got for an early birthday present. 

In this post are two of my new faves from my most recent rolls of film.  The top is a double exposure of some brown eyed susan’s in my back yard.  This is normally more my style with some definite influence from my mom.  Shess played around with toy cameras before so I can’t deny trying techniques and angles that I’ve seen her try out.  When you put a digital in my hands I immediately zoom into macro mode.  I like to shoot flowers mostly and zoom zoom zoom. 

So this second picture is definitely me leaving my comfort zone and experimenting with a new influence.  Over the last few months I’ve been admiring some of my friend Jon‘s photos.  I really admire many of the compositions of his photos.  His close ups of rusted metal to his landscapes that make me feel like I’m looking up as tiny little bug in a big big world.  I have to force myself to think outside of my normal box.  It’s harder to do in beadwork where I’m so ingrained.  Photography is a clean slate for me.  We’ll see where I take it. 

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