Carry Your Inner Light
Date: 03/02/2010
The Summer Tree
Date: 08/27/2009
A very un-literal depiction of they mythology.
Tend Your Garden
Date: 08/26/2009
While I was switching to a purple gel and repositioning one of the lights, Ruben was patiently waiting, all tangled in wires. He was manipulating the wires in his hands, shaping them into this little tree. I took a couple of shots while he was still working with it, before he realized I was ready to shoot "for real" again and let the wires fall out of the shape he'd been holding. I don't know what it was about this that moved me so much, but it did. Maybe just his quiet concentration on his project, and that rather than just standing there between shots, he was creating something.
This shot is flared out from the light I was shooting into, and I didn't fix it. It's unaltered save for the levels/saturation adjustment, somewhere between an outtake, a mistake, and an accidental piece of art.
"I was in there!"
Date: 08/26/2009
Outtake from the wire rain set, at Ruben's request, happily granted.