The Newton Camera Club is having its annual exhibit in November-December at the West Newton Cinema and I’m honored that three of my photographs were chosen by the curating committee! The opening will be Sunday Nov. 5 from 3:30-5:30pm. We will have lots of food and most of the photographers will be there (including me!). When you go into the cinema, just tell them you are going upstairs to the exhibit opening, not a movie.
The photo above is a shot I took last summer, which I call “Tall Ship in Boston Harbor.” I was downtown to take dusk shots of Tikkaway Grill for a client, and it was just after the Tall Ship event, so I went over to the harbor a block away to see if any were still there. There was one!! The sky was beautiful so I caught the city with the ship and some people walking by.
My second shot in the exhibit is a shot I took just last month of Toronto City Hall. I was thinking of Ezra Stoller’s iconic photographs of modernist architecture when I took it, thinking of where the people were, how to frame it with an interesting foreground, middle ground, and background. The buildings were designed by Finnish architect Viljo Revell in 1965, but they remind me so much of Oscar Niemeyer’s work, including the Empire State Plaza in Albany. I tried to capture all the interesting curves.
My third image is a rare nature scene for me – frosty plants from a personal shoot last winter at Medfield State Hospital. What a cold day!
I hope you can make it to the exhibit opening! If not, let me know when you think you'll stop by and maybe I can join you.
PHOTO TIP OF THE MONTH: FINDING INSPIRATION
Where do you go to find inspiration? What draws your eye? Do you ever try to capture it in a photograph? These days everyone has a camera with them, on their phone, and the saying is, your best camera is the one you have with you.
To improve your photography, keep shooting all the time! Give yourself assignments or have a friend give you one (ex. spend one day only photographing things that are yellow, or try to notice and photograph circles for a day). You’ll find you start to look at ordinary objects in different ways. Find what you enjoy shooting most. And go see exhibits of photography and artworks in other media for inspiration.