photo diary

washing the dishes this evening
(miles is in his swing looking at me and pooping while i write this)
i see out the window a leafy weed creating a shadow on the brick wall of the garage, as if someone had put a spotlight on in.
(miles is getting angry now)
i thought about taking a picture of it and washed a couple more dishes .
when i looked up again the shadow was gone. 6:43. the sun moved in just a few minutes.

following this missed photo-op , i realized the recurring theme in my work; action and reaction. had i taken that photograph, i probably would have titled it "washing the dishes". it is not often anymore that i go looking for something to photograph, but instead that i am engaged in one activity and become incited to take a picture, that may or may not have anything to do with what i was initially doing.

this is essentially the premise of my photo diary project, which i began last january when i died some sheer curtains "mint green" and they came out turquois. this action became symbolic of what i thought of as "the beginning of my domestication," and so i took a picture of the stains of dye on a sheet to commemorate the occurrence .

aside from the project i already intend to continue in senior portfolio(which is something quite different), i would also like to keep "photo diary-ing" perhaps here in the blog. where as before i hand wrote little notes to go with each image, maybe i will update my methods to the include the internet.