Eight years of December (part 1)

Blogs are sort of like scrapbooks, you know? Keep at them long enough and you have a visual record of your life.

"Remember when we went to Florida and encountered no-see-ums for the first time?" Or, "I miss Dungeness crab season on the Oregon coast and all that activity, don't you?"

So I looked at the pictures I've posted in my blogs each December, going back to 2009. I selected one photo for each year.

And in '09 there was a big freeze on the Oregon coast, where water oozing out of the bluffs next to the ocean turned into frozen waterfalls. It was magical! And COLD.

Sanibel Island in Florida was NOT cold in December of 2010. This couple was hunting for shells and I liked their silver hair, their matching jeans, new sneakers, and especially her vivid red sweater. I purposely used a slow shutter speed to blur them into unrecognizability yet capture their togetherness as they both bent forward a bit looking for beach treasures.

In 2011 I was making weird things, using photos of (in this case) ice and clock parts. The preoccupation with time remains with me, although I seem to have no concept of it in real life.

And finally, crabbing season about to begin in 2012. All the boats along the docks in Newport, packed with crab pots and colorful buoys... So much going on, so much color, so much activity, and so much at stake for these folks, where a successful haul means a good Christmas and a strong financial start for the coming year.

Four more photos coming up in the next post. Fair warning!

©Carol Leigh
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Time for Three

Today's "3" comes from a clock face I photographed. I then added photos of clock hands and part of a sign I photographed at the Getty Museum years ago.

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Frozen in time

It's been cold and clear at night here on the Oregon coast and mornings are sparkly with frost. I got up around 3:30 this morning and looked out to see the moon shining silver on the ocean, lots of stars, lots of beauty, lots of cold!

In keeping with the chilly temps, here's a photomontage I created of a close-up of an ice cube combined with a photo of a clock (of sorts). I made the clock myself, piling up various parts, and then shot straight down onto it. (Click to enlarge.)

Looking at this clock, I'm either extremely early or very late, so I better get moving.

©Carol Leigh, who has no concept of time . . .

Time Sink

I just don't know what to say about this one. It's blue. It feels like water, feels like sky, feels like snow. It feels weird. But I feel I like it. ©Carol Leigh

3 O'Clock . . .

At an architectural salvage store I photographed the individual numbers on an old clock face. There were all sorts of curved lines on it, little tick marks, wood showing through, etc. This is the kind of thing I love! Not so much a landscape kind of gal, but give me an old beat-up letter or number or car and I swoon! I added more curves and lines and clock hands to put together this piece. More swoonage ensued . . . ©Carol Leigh

Clock photomontage

I made a clock photomontage and sold the rights to use it to a movie company. They're using the montage to promote funding of the movie, not to promote the actual movie. If they want to continue using the image, we'll negotiate then.

Here's a short video they made that begins with my photomontage. They've altered it somewhat (which was agreed-to in our contract). Here's a link to my montage and then here's a link to the video they made so you can see what they did with it.

My original photomontage: <http://carolleigh.blogspot.com/2010/05/time-traveler.html>

Video: <http://vimeo.com/18438540>

Just thought you might find this interesting.

Over Time

Let's see, the big hand is on 140 and the little hand is on 307... I am chronically chronologically challenged! ©Carol Leigh

Time Traveler

"How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." —Paul Bowles, composer, author

©Carol Leigh