Channeling William Eggleston

I constantly am fighting the battle in my personal photography to be a generalist.  I love being a jack of all trades but when I am shooting what I like I all too often am just shooting flowers.  Nothing wrong  with shooting flowers but I don't want to be know as that guy that only takes flower pictures.  I look at lots of different photographer and William Eggleston is one that I really admire because he photographed such common everyday scenes.

I walked by the Aramark loading dock coming in to work and the light,  colors, texture and just the look and feel made me think of William Eggleston.  So here is to being a generalist.

"I am at war with the obvious." - William Eggleston Photo notes-  I shot this photo with a Nikon D2Xs and a  40mm F2.8 macro lens.  I am always a little taken back  when I get phot  os that I really like using equipment that is so old.   The fact is 8 year old cameras are digital dinosaurs but they still can take amazing photos.

10-9-2013 Eggletonesque Theater

Rialto Theater

9-25-2013 More Egglestonesque Images

8-21-2013 Another Eggleston inspired photo

8-1-2013 Another Eggleston inspired image

Another image of a common situation that is beautiful in its commonality.  Eggleston is the master and I  am thankful for his influence in my images.

7-26-2013 Inspired by William Eggleston

This summer I discovered William Eggleston.  He is a big time photographer that lives in Memphis.  He is noted for his color photography and his ability to take common places and show their beauty.  I tend to like b&w photography but Eggleston's photos are just inspiring.  Nothing is more common in the south than a Walmart but the wet pavement and the strong sunset color contrasted against the strong green cast of the store lights is beautiful to me in an Egglestonesque way.