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Finally, we got underway. I like the sense of acceleration in this image. The single leg, I think, also bespeaks the precariousness of a body in motion. - IMG_0047
Finally, I got my first sniff of the woods and made my first real attempt at photography. - IMG_0048
I think this was great for my second shot. I'm already creating dynamic, abstracted images - and we're not even to the trail head yet. - IMG_0049
God! I could not believe Mom had to go to the bathroom. I hate being excluded, and it just killed me to have to stop. - IMG_0046
I was very eager to get going and snapped off a few test shots. It had taken so long to get there, I couldn't wait to get going. The people took forever to get ready. They just kept pulling things out of the car. - IMG_0045
Getting geared up in the parking lot. We had to mount and test my equipment. I was so excited! - dogleash
The artistic inspiration for my first photo journal is Giacomo Balla's "Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash" from 1912. I find the futurists' interest in capturing motion, change and energy to be a truer pursuit of reality than the static depictions of previous artistic movements. I reasoned that a well-paced hike with several subjects would be appropriate for my first exploration of the theme of movement. Of course, I did not wish to duplicate the work of artists nearly a century old. While they were inspired by photography, I used the medium directly. In addition, my subject was everything in the view of my camera. Even the landscape is in motion as a result of my kinetic experience of it. I hope, as well, that my emotional response - my love of adventure and of my family's shared experience - will also have been captured on film. Yogi Bear Bohannon-Adlersfluegel