eureka

It's an unusually warm evening in Eureka, as I prowl the alleys with Inga during our third shoot. She just keeps getting better. First the poses tighten up, and now, midway through this shoot, I begin to see subtle expressiveness well beyond what she's done before.

Up to this point I've been struggling a little with direction on my return to color/digital. It's almost as if what had been so easy for me with black and white is suddenly brand new. The technical aspects have been surprisingly easy. Today, suddenly, I have the conceptual answer to go with it.

Just as I've made the technical things work by simplifying, I'm realizing that minimalism is my answer for the creative things also. I know this, have known it for a long time, yet it's so easy to stray from the path.

At least in the short term, I think the emphasis is going to be on simple colorful head shots, with simple background elements; and a renewed foray into nudes in the landscape. There will need to be a little experimentation with this, with the balance of person and land. It needs to be done in a fresh way, something just a little different from what others are doing. I have some ideas to start with.