Nikon D500
Project Kr, part of A Year in Photographs, and a focus on circles.
We don’t call Chicago “Chiberia” for nothing. With the extreme cold upon us, I searched for an indoor photography series and with my love of symmetry and geometry, all things are round.
A little more challenging than anticipated, are fewer things are round than I had anticipated.
Series 4 coming February 10, 2019.
While I just posted about my continuation of Geometry and how I was concerned I would run short on structures in Chicago, no sooner did inspiration hit and I took my Nikon D500 + Nikkor 70-200mm ƒ2.8G out to photography a building I’m intimately familiar with.
A photographer colleague of mine said, “You’re doing some really impressive work. This Geometry series is like you’re taking photos and making them into graphic design.” For the record, and I always stress this because people question it always, there is no Photoshop, Illustrator, vector graphics, etc. Geometry series is minimally processed in Photos on a Mac—it’s all exposure and timing.
Photography is seeing common things differently and capturing one’s vision like no one else can.
Waves, Chicago, 2018
Dedicated to Michael.
Blocks, Chicago 2018
Since 2015, I’ve been working on a photography project around architecture—black and white, high contrast, geometric photography, or as some said, making photographs look almost like vector graphics. Those who follow this project know it is a bit challenging because, one, the buildings must be a a certain albedo. Two, they must also have certain design characteristics. And, three, the weather must be just right.
The past month i’ve had some time to work on the further here in Chicago. I’m pleased to share these images with you.
As this series goes, it is almost entirely from buildings here in Chicago. While there are plenty of structures here and Chicago is one of the architectural capitals of the world, I’ll eventually run short on buildings that fit this project.
It is time for me to branch out into other locations. Where should I go next?
