Friday, February 26, 2010

Robert Voit

Robert Voit's pictures highlight cell phone companies inability to disguise "ugly" cell phone towers in rural areas. The towers are often seen as eye sores and the cell phone companies attempt to cure this problem by masking them as objects indigenous to that specific area. In his pictures he takes simple pictures of the towers, which after reading the article, clearly become visible that the trees and or cactuses are false. To provide service in areas that are thickly settled in the woods, a company created a "tree" that stands much higher than the other trees and is built of materials that do not seem natural. In another picture, a company built a "tower" directly next to a real tree and it looks like a fraud. In another, there is a cactus that is surrounded by metal wires and the cactus stands probably twenty feet high. Its seems are also showing on the cactus which makes one ponder, is this real? Overall, i enjoyed the pictures because it gave me a laugh and also an insight into the cell phone company business. I like the way he captured the pictures by exaggerating how long and abnormal the trees and cactuses look.

New pictures by me












Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Update on Concentration

My concentration has gone through many shifts to become what it is now. Mainly, I have started to focus more on the movement of light in any kind of definition. I have shot streetlights, car lights, flame, lighters, and a lot of other things but I am still looking for other ideas. I looked online for ideas of things to shoot and how to play with light. In my research I found something that strongly interests me and I think I could really stretch my creativity in. I did it once and I have a few pictures of it but Light Writing is something that could take me to the pinnacle of the photography world. Some examples that I liked are:







I hope I can accomplish taking some pictures as good and most likely even better.