what is your latest project, or one that you hope to work on

[Shaggysk8]

This thread is great, I have found that I keep taking photos of things on there one, every photo I take looks lonely, so I don't really have a project but I think they could all be headed under the same title.

PS. Chris are you gonna walk then swan swan pedalo?

 

[removed account4]

looks like there is some fun and interesting stuff going on ... !

 

[mooseontheloose]

looks like there is some fun and interesting stuff going on ... !

I agree! Most of my projects, if you can call them that, are subjects that I've come to realize that I enjoy shooting.

Interesting cemeteries
Living history museums and the people that work there (having been one such person myself)
The concept of wabi-sabi

I've also had many ideas for doing enviromental portraits of people over the years-- my extended family, the people from the tiny hamlet where I grew up in Manitoba, my international students that I teach, etc. The problem is I have never really taken these kinds of portraits before and am often stuck as to where or how to start. In some cases, geographic location is a huge obstacle.

My primary goal for this fall, once I get back to Canada, is to finallly create a dedicated portfolio of work that I can display, show others, enter competitions with, sell, etc... Although it's been something I've been wanting to do for some time, I've only realized the necessity of it once I figured out the ratio of negatives I have (thousands) to the number of prints i have (a few). People often ask to see my work and I have so few "final" prints that it's become a bit frustrating.

 

[Christopher Walrath]

My next personal project I wish to get going is to take all those negatives I have and, now that I am finally enlarging this year, get some great prints of my own negs, find a way to scan them and rework my website with a 'Personal Work' section or some such.

 

[Brad Bireley]

I have in the plans to do a project on the "hunting camps" here in Northcentral Pennsylvania. I've been photographing some during the last few years but it has been just while riding around & seeing a neat camp & stopping & just getting a photograph of it. Not really planning what I really want to photograph. In Potter County half of the homes here are hunting camps! I want to have website dedicated to just PA Hunting Camps...which would include for sale...framed prints, posters, cards, & possibly a book.

 

[Ektagraphic]

I was/am working on The Kodachrome Project.

 

[lightwisps]

2 Projects at current:

1. A B/W series on elderly hands.

2. Opening a second Gallery. This one devoted only to photography.

Don

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

I'm working on my 'By The Water' series very consciously. I'm trying to knock out one or two prints per week, all while I try to make them look cohesive and as belonging together.

It's a series of about 20 images, mostly done with pinhole camera, but some with 'glass' cameras also. They all are sort of dreamy or have a strong mood in them.

I'm usually torn between many things I work on, but have realized that if I spread myself too thin and work on too many things, neither of them turn out right. I always feel like I'm in a hurry to finish something, like the other negatives will go away or something...

 

[Stephen Frizza]

Im currently photographing newborn babies being circumcised and intend on having a head and shoulders exhibition of 30 portraits of newborn males taken during the procedure. The images are to be accompanied by 3000 used Circumcision clamps in the center of the exhibition space representing the 3000 times a day on average that this procedure is preformed in america.

 

[pesphoto]

I've thought of trying to start a Providence Grid Project with other photographers.
Get a map, divide it into sections and each month randomly pick a part of the city to photograph.
Each photographer would shoot in his or her own style the part of the city selected.
Get together each month to compare images.
An on going, pretty much lifetime project to document the city and area, people, places, and things.

But have no idea how to go about getting it going.

 

[jasonhall]

I've thought of trying to start a Providence Grid Project with other photographers.
Get a map, divide it into sections and each month randomly pick a part of the city to photograph.
Each photographer would shoot in his or her own style the part of the city selected.
Get together each month to compare images.
An on going, pretty much lifetime project to document the city and area, people, places, and things.

But have no idea how to go about getting it going.

Look around to see if there are any camera clubs around you. Join them and try to sell your idea to them. Could become a project worth publishing.

Jason

 

[Colin Corneau]

I'm heading back to China in 2 days, and will continue to make images from that country.

Also been keeping a small Nikon and 35mm lens along with Tri-X with me to photograph the downtown street I walk on my way to work each day...so far, about 7 or 8 months and some promising stuff so far.

And I've been photographing the national park north of my city and getting a lot of satisfaction from that; it's amazing how it changes every week.

Been shooting the printing presses and pressmen where I work, but haven't done much with that lately...should get on it soon.

 

[Marc Akemann]

One of my personal projects involves using up my last roll of Kodachrome 25 by taking 2 images per month for 18 months. My last two shots will coincide with the last month Dwayne's is scheduled to be processing Kodachrome (Dec. 2010). This project will not only challenge me to take the best images I can make with each and every click of the shutter, which I try do anyway, but, it's also my way of saying good-bye to Kodachrome. Details of each shot are being recorded in my logbook. Image #2 for July will be taken later today.
-Marc

 

[Struan Gray]

I do most of my photography at home, or on our annual holiday to N.W. Scotland. In both places there are frustrations due to limited time, but I do get the chance to revisit favourite sites and take a long-term view.

On our trips back and forth to Scotland we usually stay a few nights with Granny in the Scottish Borders, halfway between Newcastle and Edinburgh. The landscapes look timeless, and there are any number of lovingly cared for castles, monuments and prehistoric sites, but there are also creeping changes taking place which are perhaps more obvious to me as an outsider who drops in for a few days each June/July.

So the project I would love to do is a study of hedges and other boundaries in Northumbria and the Merse. Not a nostalgia trip, more observation and comment on changes that most people overlook.

And then there is the overwintering in North Norway.

Meanwhile it's a bumper berry season in our local woods so I get to munch as I periginate. Life is good.

 

[Steve Smith]

Current project; 8x10 paper neg/contact prints of our island artists

What a great idea. I would never have though about making art pictures of artists.

Perhaps I could find a few on my little island too!


Steve.

 

[Prest_400]

I don't have any project to work on, but thought about a few possibilities.
There's one I hope to never work on. "The dawn of analog". Should be using the faster film pushed for max grain on rodinal. Fast and grainy film meaning that light is fading away...
Creepy, I hope to forget this one.

Next year I may travel to asia. I planned to get a rollei TLR, but I would need to travel a year later intsead of 2010. So it may become, one camera, one lens (even if I bring both wide and tele) Reversal color negative and color B&W. Let's see what I will finally do.
I would like to photograph the landscape, villages and people of the pyrenées with a medium and large format camera.

 

[Paul Jenkin]

I'm intent on two parallel projects - both of which have probably been done a thousand times previously - but not by me.

The first is a record of the seasons in the part of the UK in which I live (East Anglia). We used to have 4 distinct seasons but, in many recent years, 'winter' seems to have gone missing.

The other is a record of the county where I live every month - a sort of 'year in the life of'. Not the same view, just shots things that seem relevant for that particular month - December (Christmas), January (New Year), February - Valentine's Day, June (summer equinox) etc....

I'm hoping that, between these projects, I'll have sufficient decent quality shots to submit for accreditation at the RPS - which, in itself, is something I've wanted to do for a long time (just for the hell of it).

 

[eclarke]

I have several:
Milwaukee Marquees, faded theaters and buildings

Iglesia, Latino churches

North Dakota, printing a project from a 2 week trip

Wall art and graffiti tags in Milwaukee, a long, chronic project

A tree portfolio, trees which represent (to me) human emotions and conditions (also long and chronic)

Pulaski Park in Milwaukee, I would have to explain this one quite a bit, a nasty murder took place there and there is an annual memorial
among the train tracks and graffiti but it's a picturesque place

Doors, self explanatory

Lake Michigan

Lake Superior winter

Lith printing, have all the stuff, just have not started

Mostly 4x5, some 5x7 and 8x10

Evan Clarke

 

[David R Munson]

Just started a new project centering around time studies in an urban environment. An example here. I'm excited about it.

Example shot is on digital, but I think most of the project will be shot on 645 film.

 

[Jeremy]

Working on a new project where I'm looking at perception and following in the footsteps of Merleau-Ponty. Initial shot is on 4x5, second shot is on 8x10. I'm thinking of printing them both 8"x10" in palladium and putting them in the same mat.

 

[removed account4]

i have added a short term project to my list ..
it is a series of views of the city i live in, mainly
landscapey/seascapey views that i shoot with
paper instead of film ... and the images will be
shown in february in a local public library ...

 

[Q.G.]

I'm hoping to do a project (book, probably) on the Bechers and their "Grundformen".

 

[pesphoto]

i have added a short term project to my list ..
it is a series of views of the city i live in, mainly
landscapey/seascapey views that i shoot with
paper instead of film ... and the images will be
shown in february in a local public library ...

sounds great Jon, please let us know when so we can come see.

 

[Marc Akemann]

I'm hoping to do a project (book, probably) on the Bechers and their "Grundformen".

Hasn't that book already been done? Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying? http://tinyurl.com/ykksest

Marc

 

[Richard Wasserman]

I am working on an essay on the uses and abuses of eminent domain in the United States.