Photos 07 Nov 2010 08:45 am
Treestumps
Here’s a note I received from my friend, Steve Fisher:
- A month ago, I was invited by the Queens Chronicle to participate in a photo assignment involving the tree stumps around town in the aftermath of the tornados that swept through Middle Village this fall. The charge was, ‘Be creative.’ I happily went to work surveying the area and ultimately submitted over a dozen shots that I thought might be worthy of the photo essay QC had planned. Inexplicably, nothing further has come of them to date – nothing has been published in the several subsequent issues of QC, and no response to a number of email queries as to the status of the project. So I’d like to share them with you.
Upon first blush, I felt that a stump was a stump was a stump. But looking around, I began to appreciate that each stump is distinct and has its own story. The challenge became to find the more interesting stories. What makes a photo of a stump artistic, after all? Its color, shape composition. For me, the more successful shots are those that transcend what is being photographed – sometimes using scale to add to the mystery of the image – making the viewer ask, ‘ What am I looking at?’
Needless to say, I’m posting them all. Enjoy.
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on 07 Nov 2010 at 10:01 am 1.Elliot Cowan said …
5th image down looks like a landscape.
Incredible.
Anthony Como has decided to use the same colours as the Spam people to advertise his nme.
It’s the first thing I thought of.