Well, Fuck Me.

It's almost March.
Been shooting 4x5 and printing 35mm from the past few months in a new city with a wonderful lab space.
More photos soon. Happy New Year.

Goodbye Cambridge APT

and more likely than not C-Printing.

I'm leaving in less than a month for Portland and I've found myself taking pictures of the apartment when I should be packing and organizing.
Shoot through it.

This One

with the one below.
black and whites coming soon

Summah

4th, Trav, Camp, Drive

Summer I'm gonna miss you.

Talking and Sitting

I like watching myself take the same picture in different ways. Here are three that are talking. Two have been posted before, one is newly printed but from the winter. Also shown in chronological order.

And this is another (hand held) "panorama" i did while sitting and talking to sparrows. I don't use tripod because of a traumatic incident that ended in a broken lens.

Experiments in Black and White

a.k.a. i love film grain.

There are from a little experimentation in pushing black and white film. The first four are from Kodak T-Max 400iso pushed to 6400. The last one is Ilford 100 push to 3200 and I'm pretty sure this roll was expired. All were shot at night except the last one which was indoor window light(p.s. not my stash).
I've been shooting color film exclusively for the past two or so years, I'm excited to get back to black and white. Now I just need to get my hand wet again.

Another PanOrama

thank god its spring

Plants. At. Night!

From a Cambridge walk, in December.

Garden Octopus in Denton, January.

Hydrangea...Sommerville?

They're all dead I tell you! Dead!

hm.

Ain't Nothin Holier than a Snapshot

And I know this to be true.
Here are some family photos I have collected (and taken without consent), thought I would share.

taken by my mother or one of her siblings

Mom and Pop (and my uncle Steven in the background)pre-children

My Dad and brother 1986ish

Idean Watson, my grandmother

Drink Coffee, Brush Teeth, Take Self Portrait

Here are the first five printed self portraits from my morning portraits WIP series. Each (most) are taken moments before I walk out the door for the first time. I am interested in seeing how I feel/look before I present myself to the hustle and bustle of Central Square and the changes of my expression, stance and clothing.
Its about the everyday.
I have been wanting to do a daily photo project for sometime but did not know what to shoot, this seems to be worth exploring for now.
All of these were taken in November or early December, and I am pretty sure the first one here was the first one i took.
I am hoping to have more printed and posted in a about month but they will have a different locations and people in them.

Merry X-mas, Eat some fucking pie!

©S.I.Watson 2009

What November Was (part two)

November was the last warm days, the last night wanderings and talks about the future.

Where are we going? Oh photos will you let me know?

Presently I am down in Texas, the sun is shining, and I want to photograph everything. While visiting friends and family, I keep coming across stacks of photos- snap shots with no time line or order - that make me drool. The randomness of people and places I don't know or haven't thought about in a while, different textures of paper, photos from the 1960s hanging out next to pictures from a few months ago, some fading and beat to shit, someone's history vibrating in my hands and eyeballs. Snapshots are one of (if not the) my greatest influences on my work, there is something just so beautiful and humble about them. I feel as if I have the same intentions as a families' photo album just on a larger scale.
Do people still do photo albums? Or are we locking them inside of digital cameras and computers?

Thanks for lookin' and reading.

©S.I. Watson

Tortilla Red Sweater

Click to make bigger.
1. Tortillas
2. Red
3. Sweater
Two from Cambridge one from Texas, can you guess which is from Texas?

I sent out a package of prints to Dallas yesterday. Hooray for selling work and living off of it. I actually haven't been shooting that much film since I got back from Texas. I'm kinda bored with the Cambridge/Boston area but that could just be the summer doldrums.
I did shoot a few rolls this weekend, its mainly of people/adventures with friends. And i have another two rolls to finish before I'll head back to the lab to make print.


p.s. I have developed recent summer flowers obsession. They are just so pretty. Here's another: