2013 Project 52, Week 23: Focus

Week 23: June 4-10

I'm behind on the blog, but happily I haven't fallen off of my weekly photographic pursuits. Barely.

This, I'll keep simple. I very nearly had nothing to show for this week due to sloth and what felt like a lackluster day of shooting. Sharon and I hit up a barbecue festival in NYC at Washington Square Park, which sounds like fun but for a few details.

1. We arrived as the festival began wrapping up, so it didn't seem ripe for much opportunity.
2. We recently decided to become vegetarians (no moralizing; it's just our choice). It does kind of suck to be a recently-vegetarian at a barbecue festival. The silver lining (well, two silver linings)- we found a stand for none other than Jim-N-Nick's, a Birmingham BBQ joint (a GREAT BBQ joint), and they were giving out their delicious pimento cheese mix. It really made my day.

I already kinda wasn't feeling it that day, and I ended up with a few boring shots of the adjacent Flatiron Building that I was going to throw up here on the blog and call it a week.

When I looked back at the photos on the memory card, I came across this, the very first of the day.

20mm (DX) : ISO 800 : f/5.6 : 1/13s
Subway Busking

The photo wasn't in perfect focus, and it had been shot from the hip at a really slow shutter. But despite its many imperfections, it struck me as easily the most interesting of the bunch. One of my (many) self-criticism points is that I tend to emphasize the technical too much at the expense of the artistic or aesthetic. And while you don't even need to pixel-peep to see that it's not the most technically proficient photo in my "portfolio", I'm happy that it's there, and I want to get more like these.

2013 Project 52 entries:

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