{"id":1257,"date":"2013-10-02T06:23:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T13:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2023-02-13T09:13:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T17:13:29","slug":"a-textural-photo-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/?p=1257","title":{"rendered":"A textural photo assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blognosticator<\/a><\/p>\n

I occasionally find myself walking down a street of booths at a farmer\u2019s market or a community fair. I attended one a week ago in Clovis, California. There were all the usual vendors \u2013 kettle corn, corn dogs, frozen lemonade, churros, and more. There were also a few strange ones \u2013 a group of people asking for signatures on a petition to impeach President Obama (their grounds for impeachment fell far short of those proscribed by the Constitution). Bottom line: they don\u2019t like him.<\/p>\n

\"Birds<\/a><\/p>\n

At the fair there were vendors of tacky wall art, calendars, wood-burning, etc., et cetera. And various vendors (I think they were all selling for the same company, though in separate booths) with plastic oddities one could vaguely call \u201cd\u00e9cor.\u201d These included pretty plastic birds, frogs, butterflies and pinwheels. My wife bought one of the birds to give to a bird-lover friend. I bought some frozen lemonade for a lemonade-lover (me).<\/p>\n

As we walked with friends along this chorus line of mostly useless stuff, I thought about a photo assignment. I decided to entitle it \u201ctextures\u201d and to take photos that captured the textures of the community fair. The colors and variety were resplendent, the sheer number of booths was exhausting. The photo opportunities were many.<\/p>\n

\"Frogs<\/a><\/p>\n

What\u2019s fun about textures is that individual objects disappear, replaced by the textural qualities of a mass of objects. Birds become a sea of color and iridescence, plastic frogs are not just frogs, they are a jungle of colors. To me it\u2019s like the effect of halftone dots \u2013 up close they are dots, but when viewed from a distance they become an image. It\u2019s one of the most masterful illusions!<\/p>\n

\"Umbrella<\/a><\/p>\n

At one booth I was about to take a photo of stacks of hats when the vendor shouted at me, \u201cNo photos!\u201d I asked him why \u2013 they were stacks of hats for goodness\u2019 sake \u2013 he responded that he doesn\u2019t allow photos of his hats. Perhaps these hats were foreign-made rip-offs of hats by famous-label designers and he didn\u2019t want me to gather evidence of his theft of intellectual property. Perhaps his hats contained terrorist messages in the patterns of the herringbone fabric that he didn\u2019t want me to capture (I watched an episode of Homeland last night). I walked away hat-photo-less. I moved on to the umbrella vendor who didn\u2019t seem to care if I photographed her umbrellae.<\/p>\n

\"Bows<\/a><\/p>\n

I got some nice images, and it made the festival even more interesting for me. On Thursday evening I plan to go to the local farmer\u2019s market to photograph beets and carrots and avocados. Those textures will make interesting photos for another blog on another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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