I call this PaD The Other Side of a Cliche. It is included in my new series of photos from Movement '08, Detroit Electronic Music Festival. CLICK HERE to see the start of that series.
I've started editing and posting my 400+ photos from Movement '08, but I'm doing it differently this time. Instead of giving you a minute-by-minute account, I'm trying to be super selective and only share photos that express the feeling or mood I want to convey. What that translates into is galleries made up of 6-10 images rather than my usual 20-30.
My photographic sensibilities are undergoing a seismic shift, much of it due to David Alan Harvey's "Road Trips" blog/forum. It's hard to describe what happens there but I guess I'd describe it as a rigorous professionalism that insists on the best that each individual has to offer. I often feel like I'm trying to climb a sheer rock cliff wearing sneakers--remember those?--but dammit, I'm not giving up. And inch by inch I'm seeing a change for the better in my work. When I say "for the better," of course that is my own opinion, but isn't that the opinion we artists must value above all others?
So when I'm editing this series of photos I took at Movement '08, I'm looking for images that express the energy, intensity, sensuality, exhilaration and pulsing beat that characterized the weekend. I'm trying to stay away from the predictable, the cliched, the tried-and-true. I want to say something new, at least for me. At this point I'm less concerned about whether or not it "works;" I just want to know I tried.
CLICK HERE to view others participating in "The Other Side" PaD challenge for May 2008.