New Images from The Westside

It's interesting how teaching filters into your own work. The two images below were shot in September.  The week that I shot these, I had been lecturing about the impact of time of day and weather on color in a photograph.  And it seemed that since that was on my mind, I kept looking for a change in color due to time of day.  Then on a stormy Sunday, the sun began to peek through pockets in the clouds and the light was amazing.  I took some of my own advice  and went out to photograph in this stormy, moody atmosphere.  The sad little storefront churches on Ogden never looked so full of life.

Livingstone Church

Douglas Park

This next image was taken over the summer.  This romanticized image of  an unconscious and curvy young woman thrown over the man's shoulder and the fact that they seem to be some kind of mirage emerging over the landscape like an oasis for the weary traveler is quite strange to my gringa, feminist sensibility.

Zacatecas