Show "Families of the Dump" Possibilities 2?

These 55 scans are other possibilities shot in November 2013 at the dump. Having my part of the group show being devoted to the families of the dump is the right way to go, it will allow a common theme and more importantly it will allow me to show more works and tell a larger story. I wanted to show the family/dump pics and now I can. To have 4 or 5 pics of dad in a separate room is also important to me, I can pay tribute to my father with his brutally honest last/day pics as well.

I still need to look through lots of contacts and such but a good portion of the 15 photos will be from this blog post and the last.

Show Families of the Dump" Possibilities?

The show will be limited to "Families of the Dump" images with a few of dad shown separated. The idea would be to have a theme and a certain amount of continuity in this group show, not doing a 'Best Of" thing.  Here are 39 maybes from May 2013 trip. I still have to look through all the November trip photos and other May shot dump pics. There are a ton of possible negs to print. I will have to edit down the final selection to 15 photographs. Another thing to consider is that almost all of these negs I have never printed so I have only seen the digital versions, not all negs might be fit for printing technically, mostly I am worried about their sharpness. With all the film I shot over 2 trips involving 14 or 15 days of shooting, I should have no problem filling the 15 photograph group show quota. When you add in the 4 or 5 images I want to show of dad separately that's one hell of a lot of printing, I have 5 months to complete it.  The selection process starts tonight, I will look through my scans and my enlarged contacts. I need to start looking for all the negs (a major difficulty) and begin printing this week. I figure for each of my off weeks between now and February I need to do 1 fine prints, I might also have to start printing on my work weeks as well. There promises to be a lot of 10 hour printing nights in my future.

Dad Again

Here is a shot I did of dad last night with the Mark II 5D. I prefer doing b/w work with film but the digital has a real clarity to the images that is quite appealing, you can see pretty much everything in detail. When I get the 24mm 1.4 (this week I hope) I plan on using it exclusively and putting away the 24-70mm zoom. I want to try to limit myself to get more. My friend Larry does wonderful photography mostly with the Mark II, III and the 24mm 1.4.  I know that great work can be done with that simple combination, I want to force myself to try to do the same, limiting your tools should yield better quality photographs. The idea is less gadgets more creativity. Gosh thou I love my gadgets!

In the photo below dad had just wiped away a tear and was thinking.

Dad August 31 2014

Quote: Richard Pryor

On his job as a boxing gym sparring partner.

"I always had to fight the guys who looked like they just killed their parents."