All Sanity Depends on This
July 2011
July is the month I try to slow down. Fewer assignments, more mornings in the kitchen, longer walks back from the market. The pace changes and the photography changes with it. The subjects get quieter. More still life, fewer action-forward frames. Less about capturing something specific and more about just being in a space with a camera and seeing what happens.
Bread on a cutting board. A jar of something. The particular quality of summer morning light in a kitchen with the window cracked. All sanity depends on this — on having a few hours in the week where the work is slow enough to actually look at.
I ended up with about forty frames from this morning. These four or five are the ones I'd print. The others are the cost of not knowing what you're looking for until you find it. See the Feast portfolio series for the more polished food work, or the prints page for what's available. The Southern Delicious post from the previous year has a similar feeling.