Any on-going projects?

Do you have any photographic "projects"? I have some categories of pictures that I always get back to by adding pictures to the archive. These "projects" can be steadily in work, or they are more loosely held, sometimes only a label in my DAM.

Some examples; Neon Lights, A Building a Week, Elisabeth Monthly and Shadows. I would appreciate any posts here, with or without samples, describing any of your long term projects!

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Jonas

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Thank you,

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Jonas

Elisabeth is my friend through life, mother of some of my kids, and obviously also my better half. This is the easiest of all my projects. Among all the snapshots I take Elisabeth is regularely present, so Elisabeth Monthly has a special place/label in my asset manager. Some samples:



E August 2004



E August 2005



E July 2006



E November 2006



E Mars 2007



E February 2008

and some perspective to it:



E September 1991

comments are welcome,

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Jonas

Just started on one. Pairs: same place, same composition, different time of day. Both of these pairs are evening and then the following morning. I was slightly annoyed to miss high tide on the last one, then I'd have had a contrast on light and a better contrast in water. Ah well, must plan ahead.









Paul

...I photograph (ie, my personal work) following instinct & reaction. So no structured projects as such. I plan very little these days & am, as much as is possible, at the mercy of my fate (photographically speaking). It has become a cathartic experience & as much as I like & appreciate acknowledgement of reactions by viewers, the whole process has become selfish, well, that sounds a bit harsh...internally self organic then (no not orgasmic...well..ok...somtimes maybe then) ;->

I don't have a preference for any specific style, subject matter or approach. I like to think that I have an overall inner visual style, but the cloaking or dressing(?) seems to always be different.....I'm starting to rant now.

Glad to see some pictures posted by you Jonas, & personal ones too (what other types could there possibly be??) Your pics of Elizabeth seem to me, to be searching deeply, looking into her for something an answer..a confirmation..or a question. Perhaps....aaarrgghh now I'm getting too nosy.

A few recent ones:
Cheers

Australia Day at the local beaches:







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The Cassanova Club. Kabukicho Tokyo.



The Blue Glove. Kabukicho Tokyo.



Laneway. Melbourne CBD.



In Transit.





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Hi Paul and Jonas!

Nice one!

I have found this cool spot about 15min away from home and the last three weekends I've been there trying to get that shot. I could see that today won't be the last time...
Granted, this is not the same as Paul's idea, but #umm# it reminded me somehow.

Then, I'm working on my 13to4 website and I am trying to shoot more images to a title/line of a song/poem/movie/quote in 2008. Not very original, but that doesn't have to mean that the images are unoriginal. I hope.

Cheers
Jens

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'Well, 'Zooming with your feet' is usually a stupid thing as zoom rings are designed for hands.' (Me, 2006)
My Homepage: http://www.JensRoesner.de

I love street photography, recording everyday people doing everyday things. You will often find me in the Queen Street Mall of Brisbane just wandering up and down.

I do 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off, which is great because it gives me heaps of time during the day to do what I want but is not so great when there are events like Anzac day while I am at work.

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Harry Phillips

Work... something I am forced to do between photography sessions.

Working on a little folder-book for Festus.



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I have one on-going project at the moment: a self-portrait every day for a year (today is Day #263, and I haven't missed one yet!). I started the project nearly one month after I bought the K100D - my first SLR - as a way to learn the camera and learn more about photography.

Some of my personal favorites:
Day #236:



Day #210:



Day #197:



Day #122:



Day #92:



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Keitha McCall
Pentaxian since April 2007
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Your second and your fourth Paul, I like them! They really show how different it can become. It reminds me about the old saying about amateurs worrying about equipment, pros about money and masters about light.

Here are a couple from an old abandoned project: No light - Light:





and





Picture No 2 of the first pair is a snapshot and it made me walk the same route again on my way back to see what the place would be like in the dark. It was more fun in broad daylight.

The second pair never came longer than to here at DPR. Let's forget it, OK? This leads to another discussion... not within the topic.

If you keep finding views and places like those you showed and keep up the good work I'll be interested in seeing more in the future.

regards,

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Jonas

I don't think you'll do anything unoriginal Jens. And at least you have ideas. I have been drifting lately. Maybe pictures will come when you feel you have done what's possible with your "spot"?

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Jonas

Hi Jonas!

Jonas B said:

I don't think you'll do anything unoriginal Jens.

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Oh, you haven't seen me cook...

Jonas B said:

I have been drifting lately.

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This need not be a problem. Best of luck that you are drifting into a direction you like!

Jonas B said:

Maybe pictures will come when you feel you have
done what's possible with your "spot"?

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Yes! I'm shooting for this month's challenge, so I can't post now.

Cheers
Jens

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Keitha, day 122 was a great day!

Lol - what a project! I hope you repost your favourites when that first year has passed. Did you plan any of the pictures before starting? I guess I'm asking if you are taking the same variation(s) a couple of times during the year to see the differences, in light, details or anything else.

may the light be with you,

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Jonas

Long slooow project working towards building a modified Pentax DSLR which will take Contax Carl Zeiss T* manual focus lenses, We have about 10 of these so far, in use on Contax film bodies, which cost much more than a Pentax body does. It would be good to give these gems a second life.

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Jonas B said:

.... It reminds me about the old saying about amateurs worrying about equipment, pros about> money and masters about light.

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I think this little comfort zone statement is simplistic at best & it surprises me that you are the one making it Jonas.

I do think however that it would make an excellent essay subject in the Photography School of Hard Knocks. What number of words do you think should be the limit?

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I have a couple of long-term projects right now. One is something that I'm tentatively calling 'People in Black, People in White.' Basically, what I've been doing is getting people to let me photograph them in their interpretations of Victorian garb against black and white backgrounds. The idea, in part, is the question of what might it look like if somebody were doing photos in the style of daguerrotypes, but with modern lighting and photo equipment. Another that I've been working on is a general sense of place project that consists of mostly detail shots of my neighborhood, which is a historic area in Bloomington, Indiana. I tend to work on both of them only intermittently, and take a lot of pictures that are not related to either. But slowly I am collecting enough good exposures that I will eventually have galleries for each on my web site.

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Here are two shots from my "People in Black, People in White" project:





And here are two from my sense of place project:





I'm pretty sure that I've posted all four of these images in this forum before, so please excuse the repeats.

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Thanks, Jonas!

I didn't really plan any photos before I started, but I've made mini-projects as I've gone along. On Day 99, I started an homage to my favorite books so that the final one - a tribute to "My Name Is Asher Lev" - ended on Rosh Hashanah. That was one of the most photographically challenging eight days of my life.

You can see the mini-series here: http://flickr.com/photos/aravis121/tags/favoritebooks/show/

Then on December 1st, I did The Twelve Days of Christmas, with each photo tied to a song from a Christmas song mix I'd made. That wasn't nearly as bad, but the photos aren't as good either

Otherwise, I either look for good light or work on a technique I need to improve on (IR instantly comes to mind there).

Thanks for starting this thread and sharing your photos of your beautiful Elisabeth. I found your photos to be very moving.
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Pentaxian since April 2007
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I've got two ongoing projects. One is of Tokyo -- I will never run out of material.

The other -- a joint project with my wife, who's dabbling in SLR photography for the first time with my DS and DA 21mm is of our newborn son. On the day after he was born I decided to put together a website tracking the first five years of his life. While it contains photos using the normal photo engine of my main website, I've decided to add some smaller square shots as the feature of the front page of my son's mini-site.

Some examples:











etc

P.S. Stomie, I love that photo of the Melbourne laneway.

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Michael, Tokyo
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Stomie said:

...I photograph (ie, my personal work) following instinct & reaction.
So no structured projects as such. I plan very little these days &
am, as much as is possible, at the mercy of my fate (photographically
speaking). It has become a cathartic experience & as much as I like &
appreciate acknowledgement of reactions by viewers, the whole process
has become selfish, well, that sounds a bit harsh...internally self
organic then (no not orgasmic...well..ok...somtimes maybe then) ;->

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I remember you taking pictures by a chance, getting a man in a trenchcoat in front of some advertisement board. Great picture, later leading to a discussion about Dadaism. Was that two years ago or so?

It seems clear to me that you are faithful to your own style where the majority of the pictures are very well processed (not No1 in your "recent series" here), are examples of colors in harmony and very often with balanced shapes or elements in the pictures as well.

I see the Casanova Club picture here, where you waited for half an hour to get a soul to your liking in it. So, planned or not, a signature is definitely there. I sometimes browse through posts here looking for pictures. I can very often identify pictures taken by you before reading who posted.

Some of them have inspired me. Maybe that's a project by itself; making the colors of the world visible to the inhabitants.

Stomie said:

I don't have a preference for any specific style, subject matter or
approach. I like to think that I have an overall inner visual style,
but the cloaking or dressing(?) seems to always be different.....I'm
starting to rant now.

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You have preferences.

Stomie said:

Glad to see some pictures posted by you Jonas, & personal ones too
(what other types could there possibly be??) Your pics of Elizabeth
seem to me, to be searching deeply, looking into her for something an
answer..a confirmation..or a question. Perhaps....aaarrgghh now I'm
getting too nosy.

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There is always something personal to it. Elisabeth confirms me every day. Our mutual project is, as plain as it may sound, love and bear with each other. There are many questions.

Stomie said:

A few recent ones:

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No 1 is mentioned. No 4 is my favorite with the strip inside the plastic shield making for reflections, the background and the reflections in contrast to each other in my mind. The last two ones aren't your best ones, but they are certainly yours.

Cheers,

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Jonas