Here are two photos from an earlier trip to New York. I like the top one because of how its such a contained space for these people to stand. It feels almost hermetically sealed. Also, look at the guy in the grey peacoat, you can see this look of contempt almost as he notices in his periphery hes being photographed. Also I think the bottom pic of occupy wall street kind of sums up a lot about our culture. I guess it kind of speaks for itself in a humorous way.

Well, here are two cars with white fake animals near them. A weird trend of that day of shooting. The town I went to take pictures in was really strange in an understated way. Strange enough that I could walk off of their main street and find this yard of cars with an old fake pony. That street with the junkyard led out to a big empty lot and a baseball diamond. I think one of the greatest pleasures in photography is finding places. It's kind of awe inspiring to use photography to unfold all of the small pecularities of a place thats just a square cm on a map, and to think that there so many other "unknown" towns.

These are street shots I took on a day trip to NYC. I feel wary about the choice of doing black and white conversion, I converted one and figured why not the rest. This could definitely be looked at as trying to emulate classic street photography but I dont know.. I feel like iconic places and cities are are cliche traps for photographers, mainly just because of sheer saturation of images from these places, but, there also exists enormous amounts of photographic material. My two favorites are the girl on the escalator and the old David Carradine look-alike behind the glass. If a photograph gives you a strong  feeling of being looked at, at almost having active communication with a still image, then I think it works on some level. There are two I could give or take, the guy tieing his shoe, and the sneering military swagger guy. I wish I got the guys face who was bending over, and I wish I had just a little more sharpness and focus on swagger guy. There's one photo I took at occupy Wall-Street that's not included because it didn't feel right in the collection, but its pretty funny. It's a woman holding a starbucks coffee and taking pictures of shouting protesters with an I-Phone. Maybe a little too much of a visual political joke, but an interesting moment nonetheless.

For Worcester kids, Halloween was postponed this year, which is just a really strange thing to think of. When I went out to take photos during the storm, I was looking for things that didn't feel natural in snow so, Halloween decorations and a drive in screen. That drive-in screen is probably my favorite picture I've taken so far for this class, I really like the idea of its function literally fading into the environment. It's off-season and just there out in the woods.