Assignment #5: SPRING

This one made me cringe a little as I tend to experience sentences like, "Find where you connect with the annual spring experience..." as vomit inducing rather than inspirational in a more traditional sense.  That said I knew that like all these assignments what it really means is, "Go out and take some pictures.  Bring in the 10 you think are your best, we'll tell you if you were right or not."  Backyards are getting me all atwitter right now so here you go, a truncated tour of the backyards of Somerville.

The following four are my "best" from my week.  Touch the pictures to make them grow.  See?  I'm into spring and making things grow.  So there.

And now, the best of the rest!  

Week 4: "New Topographics" or, Beauty in the Banal

This week our job was to find inspiration in the work of the uber-influential photographers of the New Topographics show of the mid-70's. I think the work of these photographers is mind-bending in its celebration of not only the banality of urban and suburban sprawl but in its ability to find beauty in the ignored corners of our "human-altered landscape". I'll let Wikipedia do the heavy-lifting for me here with the added bonus that the information you get might not even be accurate! It really is worth a read, especially if you're at work killing time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Topographics

As always the following images are the ones my non-daft classmates found the most compelling.

And here are a few more I liked but were rejected as sub-par...jealous basta...I mean, astute aesthetes.