Field of Vision Part 1 : Photographs
Vermont's Fall-Colored Leaves
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Introduction
At the end of October (2015) my wife Gloria and I rather spontaneously decided to drive to Vermont to spend a few days with Gloria's sister Phyllis and her husband, Jim who live in Guilford, which is near Brattleboro. Their house is in a beautiful wooded area at the base of a large hill, and running along the road in front of their house is the amazing Broad Brook. The last time we had visited them, and I spent time photographing in the area, was more than a year ago (in mid-august, 2014). I was working on the Angels project then; during our visit I fell down some stairs and suffered a mild concussion, and in that rather strange state of mind made some "Angel" photographs. (click here to see the photographs and the essay A Personal Visionary Story: The "Fall Upwards")
For this visit I was hoping to photograph Vermont's Fall-colored leaves, and I traveled there with a fairly clear set of picture-making intentions informed by ideas that had emerged from within the project As Above, So Below: Mirror In the Temple. When we embarked on our trip I was practically finished with that project and was reading two books by architect and theorist Christopher Alexander. His ideas about fields and centers were important influence on the photographs you will be seeing below as well.
I will devote part 2 of this project to explaining the source of the project's title and the many ideas which had important bearing on the work. And in part 3 I will write commentaries on a selection of the twelve photographs presented below. In this first part of the project, however, I will be presenting only the photographs, symmetrical photographs, all of which were constructed with source images I had made in three rather brief photographic sessions which occurred during our visit. In fact most of the photographs were made during two leisurely walks I had taken with Gloria and her sister Phyllis.
Finally, I have decided to add an Epilogue to the project which will serve as an "ode" to Nature. It will include five additional images made in Vermont not of leaves. Welcome to Field of Vision.
Note: I encourage you to click on each of the photographs (once, or twice if possible)
for the highest quality digital rendering of the image on your computer screen.
The Photographs
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Field of Vision project, symmetrical photograph, image #1 Colored Leaves, Guilford, Vermont
Field of Vision project, symmetrical photograph, image #2 Leaves, Guilford, Vermont
Field of Vision project, symmetrical photograph, image #3 Colored Leaves, Guilford, Vermont
Field of Vision project, symmetrical photograph, image #4 Inside the Woods and Colored Leaves, Guilford, Vermont
Field of Vision project, symmetrical photograph, image #5 Colored Leaves, Guilford, Vermont
Field of Vision project, symmetrical photograph, image #6 Fallen Colored Leaves, Guilford, Vermont
Field of Vision project, symmetrical photograph, image #7 Looking Through Leaves to Broad Brook, Guilford, Vermont
Field of Vision project, symmetrical photograph, image #8 Misty sunlit morning
Field of Vision project, symmetrical photograph, image #9 Inside the Woods and Colored Leaves, Guilford, Vermont
Field of Vision project, symmetrical photograph, image #10 Colored Leaves, Guilford, Vermont
Field of Vision project, symmetrical photograph, image #11 Colored Leaves, Guilford, Vermont
Field of Vision project, symmetrical photograph, image #12 Colored Leaves, Guilford, Vermont
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This part 1 of the project "Field of Vision" was
announced in the LATEST ADDITIONS section
of my website's Welcome Page on December 1, 2015
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Other Related Links:
On the Construction of Symmetrical Photographs
If you would like to better understand how I construct the symmetrical photographs from a single source image, here are some links to earlier projects in which I have attempted to explain it:
On The Sacred In Art : Seven Photography Projects
"An Imaginary Book" (2011-13)
The Angels (2014)
The Photograph As Icon (2014-15)
Welcome Page to The Departing Landscape website which includes the complete hyperlinked listing of my online photography projects dating back to the 1960's, my resume, contact information, and more.
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