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Sorting.

I began sorting through material for an Antioch Annex slideshow. Here are some frames I ran across in the process.

More Baseball…

I am organizing some older photos. These are from the Corvallis Knights vs. Bellingham Bells game on July 21st. There was a brawl between the Knights and Kitsap Bluejackets while I was in Denver. They play again on Wednesday, August 5th. We’ll see if anything happens.

Annex Update

Andrew removes debris on the second floor. The crew removed damaged plaster from the stairwell.
A drywall estimator toured the house early Wednesday. Drywall work will start when sheetrock work is finished.
Ben corrects a cut on a piece of sheet rock. Ben and Andrew nailed sheet rock in the stairwell after removing damaged plaster.

Move Day.

My parents walk through a townhouse earlier in the day. Not exactly the best frame of the day, but interesting. The separation between the figures, the different light temperatures, the lack of faces.
Seemed like an appropriate time to go wide…
Victoria plays with a garter snake from the backyard. Nice light.
An interesting moment. My parents are staying with cousins of cousins in Parker, Colorado while they look for housing arrangements.
My parents found a townhouse in Parker. They moved a their belongings into the garage and will start renting in August.

Another day…

There is a church near downtown that is literally right next to a towering office building. It makes for an interesting contrast: the church is made of large brown stones, the building of reflective bluish glass. I didn’t like any of the frames illustrating this—I have been in a picky mood lately. The figure here is curious.
Construction on 16th Street. I have found this to be the most interesting place. Everybody gathers here: businessmen, workers, tourists, street performers, and homeless persons. It is a meshing, one worthy of further exploration.Blogger is being such a bitch right now. I really need to switch to something else.Denver has more homeless people than any other city (Portland, Seattle) I’ve seen, hands down. There is a man holding a cardboard sign on every street corner, a woman begging outside nearly every store. This is foreign to me, and interesting.

As I was leaving 16th St. I heard music. Following my ears, I discovered (to my delight) a Hispanic Christian worship concert. It was in a large open coliseum near the Denver Post offices.
What seems important to me are these moments, the offbeat. I have really come to admire the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. I find that style fascinating, extremely visual (this has nothing to do with this particular photograph.) Right before shooting this I looked at Robert Capa’s work in a bookstore. Good stuff, too. Photography was so much more romantic in those days.
I worked frantically, weaving in and out of the crowd, moving to the front and then the back. I must have taken one hundred photos, although I was only there twenty minutes.
There were tambourine players and drummers up front. Unfortunately, the main performers were roped off and I didn’t have a telephoto. I though about sneaking around, but I was already thirty minutes late for meeting my parents, so I didn’t bother.
There were lots of people, all participating in their own way.
It is quite the rush, discovering an event and working frantically to document it. There are many dimensions, and each individual offers a different perspective.
This is somewhat interesting. I tried to stay away from extremely wide shots. This is a photographic weakness, trying to get it all in the frame. Images are often about what is excluded, about simplicity. I shot wide here.
A man sleeps while the music plays. It was loud, my ears are still ringing.
My parents at a restaurant in Parker, Colorado. They are looking for a place to rent. My dad always manages to look at me when I bring the camera to eye level, despite my sneakiness.
The men’s toilet in said restaurant. That is a portrait of a girl. Above a urinal. Somebody must have a sense of humour.
It has been a lifelong goal of mine to capture lightning in photographic form. There was a few bolts tonight, so I aimed the camera out of the rear window while my parents were driving around looking for housing. The idea (so it seems) is to set a long exposure, aim, and pray. It didn’t work, but the result is somewhat interesting.

Tourist.

Denver’s 16th Street Mall is lined with restaurants and stores.
Workers on the roof of the Denver Art Museum.

Less Words.

Annex Update

I visited the guys at the Annex in the morning. Adam is taking an involuntary vacation due to funding. Ben and Andrew were wrapping up with the sheetrock and moving on to other small projects.

Ben and Andrew screw in ceiling sheetrock in a room on the second floor.

Moving.

I helped my parents pack their belongings today. In a couple of days I’ll drive one of their cars to Parker, Colorado. Stay tuned, I’ll be tweeting the trip.

Friends help move a washer into the back of a U-Haul. My leave for Colorado tomorrow.

Older Annex

I went through a folder of older images of the Annex. These are from June. The school paper, The Daily Barometer, has plans to pick up a story so I am sorting through some old stuff.

My parents are moving to Colorado; they asked me to drive their car out. Next week I will make the 1,300 drive to Parker City (about an 18 hour drive.) The route will pass through Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. Adventure! Photos! Stay tuned!

Hallways were littered when the house was purchased. A majority of the debris was removed during the work day.
House dad Tyson Butler steps over loose papers in a hallway. The floors were covered in clothes, beer cans, papers, and other personal belongings.
Andrew, Chelsea, and Tyson visited the Annex in June before work began.

Annex Update

I went to the Annex this morning to shoot for a bit. Electricians are installing heater units in each room. Ben, Adam, and Andrew are plugging away with the sheetrock in the rooms. I was tired from just waking up and bored, so I tried some different shots. Lately I’ve been reading the history of Magnum and looking at some inspiring work. Good stuff.

Adam places reinforcing boards on a thin wall before installing sheetrock.
Ben, Adam, and Andrew work on third floor rooms.