Couldn’t resist.
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dreamywasabi
dreamywasabi, originally uploaded by visualkaos.
Just liked the light on this ginger and wasabi.
Police State
My first couple of websites, extremely basic affairs which I wrote back in about 1996 or ’97, using SimpleText or PageSpinner had the moniker of PhotoTerrorism.
This was, of course, before 9/11 and the threat of real terrorism in this country and at the time was just a kind of tongue-in-cheek identity that I thought described a small part of what was my photography ‘style.
There was nothing I liked better than to, with a reporter, go knocking on the door of some politico being charged with corruption or solicitation and banging off a few frames of the palms of their hands as they slammed the door in our faces or to push a wide angle lens up in the face of the handcuffed perp as he/she was led from the police car to the courthouse.
I kept the name PhotoTerrorism for a long time until I decided to register the domain. Much to my dismay, somebody had beaten me to it and worse, there was nothing of any real value there.
Disappointed, I just abandoned the whole idea of associating myself with that name and by then, I was out of the photo stalker business anyway.
But just last night, I temporarily but gently revisited the style and I probably don’t even know how close I came to being arrested for it. Continue reading
The Pilgramage
We like to take road trips. We haven’t done it for a while but I think we’re getting to a point where we need to.
Whenever we take one of these trips we take a gazillion pictures and we give the whole odyssey a name like Tom and Linda’s Excellent Adventure, Magical Mystery Tour, Serenity Now and Serenity Not.
We also like to get off the Interstate and go the long way, take the back roads. I know this is not an original idea but it’s what we do.
The above photo was made somewhere between Santa Cruz and Saratoga, CA along Highway 9 on a trip to San Francisco that we called “The Pilgramage.”