It looked like spring. It felt like fall. It was a perfect time for me to go to Central Park and play with my yellow phone idea. The cherry blossoms and all the other blossoms were doing their best to entice me - and I couldn't help taking straight nature shots. But then I pulled the yellow phone from my knapsack and hung it from the cherry blossoms and began playing around with various arrangements. Passersby stopped to gawk - and I don't blame them.
My stock answer to anyone who asked what I was doing was: "I'm working on an art project for a class." That seemed to work. Everyone knows that you do crazy things for classes.
After a while with these weird still lifes - I began putting the phone in places where people could walk by and I could shoot their reactions. So conceptual meets street. No getting away from it. People are still more interesting than cherry blossoms.
I want to do the same thing again - but I want to do it with infrared film. I've never shot infrared and all I know is that you need a red filter (which I have somewhere in 39mm). But as to which film - or what ASA etc. - I'll need to do some research and testing I guess.
But it was damned good to get out. And dispite my intentions of doing this artsy thing - I found myself - as usual - doing some straight shooting as well. And that may be the best. I saw something very strange - a guy on the bridle path came walking by using what looked like cross country ski poles - but no skis of course. Is this some new fangled exercise regime. I have no idea but I got the shot with the cherry blossom trees in background.
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