(enbiggenable) • iPhone
(enbiggenable) • iPhone
(enbiggenable) • iPhone
IT'S TIME FOR ME TO FACE UP TO THE FACTS. While I am not overly tense and nervous and I can relax, I do need to realize and give in to / accept the fact that I make a lot of kitchen life / kitchen sink pictures, most of which also fall into the still life category, simply because I spend a lot of time in the kitchen. That fact has implanted a nagging idea in my head that I have gone lazy in picture making.
However, here's the thing about my kitchen. After building a very nice kitchen island topped with a with a cherry wood counter-top, our kitchen has become a place where the wife and I hang out quite a bit. With a large south facing window over the kitchen sink, the kitchen is a very light-filled and airy place. I spend at least the first hour of every day at the island nursing coffee(s) and a donut(s), reading the newspaper and cruising the web visiting my daily rota of regular sites. It's how I ease myself into the day.
During the day, I make regular visits to the kitchen for a wide variety of purposes. And, it is either during my morning time or my daytime visits that I make pictures. As it turns out, a lot of pictures. That's cuz....
....unlike other rooms in my house in which I spend time, the thing about the kitchen is that the topography of things is ever changing. The serendipitous placement of things-I never arrange or re-arrange them-is never ever the same and neither is the light that falls upon them. All of which makes the kitchen, to my eye and sensibilities, a target rich environment. An environment in which things just sit and stare at me and say, "There's a picture to be made here." And, as should be obvious, I am absolutely incapable of ignoring that voice.