Our Memorial Day weekend tradition, for a bunch of years now, is to visit Fredericksburg, TX. The Jayceess put on a crawfish festival that has become our official summer kickoff event! This year was no different; we drove into the hill country on a surprisingly cool and rainy Saturday for a great day of food and photography.
The Sweetwater Jaycees, with rattlesnakes in tow, have been a big attraction at the crawfish festival for the past few years; before that it was a guy that put on a show that involved wrestling alligators. Our first stop, since we walked in right at 2pm, was to see the rattlesnakes. Snakes first, lunch second!
Now that I have had a chance to get back into street photography, I find myself noticing again how detached I am from too much calculated thought while I’m walking around with my camera. The moments appear before me, but the second I make one photo my mind forgets it and moves on. This means that looking at what I made later is especially interesting to me. . . be that relatively soon-later when I download images from a memory card, or later-later when I develop the film. On Saturday walking around Fredericksburg I was drawn to windows and reflections, a usual thing for me.
I found a few details and textures interesting as well, but there were less of these (on the digital, at least; I have yet to see the film).
What grabbed me the most, however, was the dogs! I even made two photos of the same doggo, with his/her owner, without realizing it.
Some of the dog photos are fuzzy (just like the dogs) because I was walking around with the old 35mm manual focus LTM mount lens on my M6, and didn’t pay close enough attention to either slowing down or changing the focus. If you’ve seen my photographs before, however, you will know that a little fuzziness doesn’t bother me! It all shakes out!
A question to the street photographers out there: how engaged are you when you’re working? Do you remember the photos you made, or is it all a surprise later on?
Thanks for looking! All photos, Canon M6, 35mm Canon LTM lens
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