Treasure Chests
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SuzanneR

Treasure Chests

I find that I have a certain rhythm with personal work each year. Since about the summer of '04, I have photographed my children and their friends at play. I am finally pulling together a portfolio, and have found certain photographs relate to other images of mine, but were often made years apart.

Anyway, that is a long winded way of saying, I am tweaking and fine tuning this portfolio, and going through all the negatives to see if I missed anything that might fit some of the themes and ideas that are becoming clearer as the body of work comes together.

Mind you, I've been shooting very intuitively without much more than the idea to photograph my children, but it's satisfying to find images that alone may not have interested me, but seem to work in the group.

Sorry to go on a bit... any comments you might have on this picture... worth printing?? Or in general, on pulling together a portfolio that took four or so years to finally pull together?
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Location
The neighbor's back yard
Equipment Used
Mamiya 7/80mm
Exposure
F 4 or 5.6
Film & Developer
TXP in xtol
Paper & Developer
not yet
clogz
Very nice picture although it may be good to crop the lighter bits at the top. A portfolio is always a good idea.

Hans
 
Worth printing? I'd say in a handful of years it will mean a lot more to you than a beautiful image of a near-stranger. It's a good image of your (and their) real life now. That makes it a keeper, in my mind.
 
wfe
Reminds me of when I was a little boy playing in the dirt, all good memories. Now I'm still a little boy but playing in a photo studio, probably not a whole lot different it just costs more now.

In any event I think it's worth printing and I like your idea of pulling images together for a portfolio.

Cheers,
Bill
 
papagene
Like Bill says about the memories!! Wonderful days digging in the dirt.
I too have a ton of negs of my kids that I should make portfolios of. It is better to do it now than to wait until they grow up.

gene
 
Alden
For me the lighting is so clear and revealing that it makes the scattered toys and general sense of childrens disaray seem strangly poignant. I can image it taking up even more power amoung a grouping.
 
SuzanneR
Thank you for your comments, everyone. I think I just needed to live with this one for a few days, and I think it will work nicely with the rest of the group I have planned. Sometimes a photograph just needs to grow on you I guess.

Having gone through about four years worth of negatives, I find several smaller potential portfolios in addition to the main group of pictures. I'm going to have to get them sequenced next... on the web, and on the wall!! I imagine each medium will want it's own sequence!!

Thanks for letting me "think out loud" here! :smile:
 
I love the feeling in the image, but feel that their closeness is somehow lost. Children play next to each other, their own game, but somehow communal. I think that communal or closeness part is lost because of the space surrounding them. I feel a closer square crop with the bottom line running just under that white brick next to the truck may bring them closer. It would also emphasise their distance, becasue each will be more clearly looking in a different direction. Part of the group but individual. We lose that individuality when we become adults. I may be wrong...just a thought. A portfolio is a great idea ;-)K
 
WOW Kids playing OUTSIDE! What a novel idea! Are you sure this image wasn't taken 30 years ago?

I love this image!
 
Thomas Bertilsson
Fun fun fun. It is indeed refreshing to see kids playing in the dirt. Much better for them than any computer game or console. Well done, Suzanne! The light is fantastic. Crisp.
- Thomas
 
SuzanneR
Thank you! I might tinker with the crop when I print this. Yeah... outside play!! Here in Massachusetts we have long cold winters, and they really haven't been playing outside very much. We have to get a "years worth" of outside play in, mostly in the summer and fall!! haha!! I'm looking forward to the weather warming up... it's been ages since I've been able to photograph such a scene, it seems!!!
 

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