One of the best reasons to always have your camera with you is stumbling across things and events that just happen. I am an abstract photographer (among other things) and strolling on a rainy day in the backwoods where people frequently dump their trash, hidden from the views of ecologists and the law, came across a very wet book about the honorable position of fatherhood.
I actually wanted to peruse the book's subject, but the wetness made the pages stick and tear, divide and peel in ways that reminded me of collage, so i began taking photos, delicately turning each group of pages like a Hebrew scholar would Dead Sea Scrolls. Each turn revealed random and complex sets of once-never-repeated images, and it put me in that wonderful moment that photographer's love - the alpha state of discovery.
These aren't great photos by any stretch, but the process, the exploration, intrigues me and i love being in that state where time just seems to stand still. Very meditative!
If you've scrolled this far down the page, THANK YOU for reading through my crazy-talk. I love the process that goes thru the mind in photography and if you have any thoughts, post 'em!
