Canvas
The Response: Azaleas in My Front Yard
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
— Edward Steichen
Well, not really. Not in this sense. I began with a technical ability — combine nine images into one by overlapping the brightest areas of each frame. I can’t really know the final product because my mind cannot combine those images. It is a random process, pointing the camera (with an ND filter) at the azaleas, the dogwood tree, the grass, the bushes. In a way it reminds me of the Surrealist’s automatic writing.