Progressive photo journal II

[vaneramos]

Almost a year ago, I did a progressive photo journal of the path where I regularly walk, stopping every 30 paces and taking a photo. Thus I introduced LJ to the Eramosa River. The experiment was limited by my memory card, which only fit 36 images that day.

Today I conducted a new progressive photo journal, this time recording a walk from my front door to downtown Guelph. My camera has more memory now, so I completed the walk with 108 photos—and 3,240 paces. The images are posted on my web site. They progress from left to right and top to bottom. If you're on dial-up, they'll take some time to download. They're small, so you won't see many details, but the overall effect is interesting.

Progressive photo journal of a walk downtown

In particular, you'll notice how the quality of the urban setting changes from small factories and rundown houses to literally the other side of the tracks, dominated by large Victorian homes, and finally to larger stone buildings near downtown. Some of the photos are difficult to interpret at this size, but if you look closely you'll find interesting details. This self-assignment gave me ideas for things I want to go back and photograph more carefully.

Here are some things to look for, in the nature of a Where's Waldo or I Spy book:

1. both of the images which appear in this post in slightly edited form


2. six images showing all or part of St. George's Anglican Church, bonus points if you can find eight


3. an Easter egg tree


4. graffiti art


5. a young man with a flute


6. a purple door

Comments

[avad.livejournal.com]

that is wonderful. exactly what I like to see (y'know, everything!);)
It's so nice to have all these eyes.....thanks,van. This is going in my memories...:)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks for telling me! It's always nice to know when something moves one of my friends that way. I would like to do more of this kind of thing. Maybe when I get my own domain set up with a new web site.

[ubermunkey.livejournal.com]

i see the steps and the awning billboard the rest is unavialable, but I love the steps.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Ya, the pics in this post showed up because they're stored on a different site. I guess I viewed the page too many times when I was setting it up and used up too much band width for geocities. That has never happened before, but I've never posted so many photos either. It is working again today.

I loved the steps, too. They're so muscular!

[apel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like this idea. My walks are often organised chronologically but not usually this systematically. I have a feeling it works better in such a suburban or semi-urban environment as your walk into downtown Guelph than in the woods. If I did this in the woods there would sure be a lot of "beech trees", "beech trees", "yet more beech trees", "can you tell how different these beech trees are from all the others?" etc. :-)

It would be kind of fun to make something like this of my morning commute. Or perhaps the walk down to the High Street. You've got me thinking. That's always a good thing. Thanks!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

If you check out last year's exercise, which is also linked from this post, you'll see it was mostly through the park, and in some ways it was more monotonous. But the overall effect was just as interesting; in fact it gave a clearer indication of gradual changes in the landscape. You might try doing beech trees, beech trees and more beech trees, just to see if the exercise shows you anything unexpected.

I've heard of people doing this while cycling to work. Even on trips, you can stop on the side of the road, say every 10 km or 30 km depending on the length of the journey.

Have fun with it!

wow! what a cool idea, and great pics as well!

[djjo.livejournal.com]

Now all your viewers have to do is find things for YOU to find in the pictures.

Hm....
Recycling blue box
Canada mail boxes (in two pictures I believe)
A picinic bench

I think I got all the pics - it took at while! Sneaky sneaky on the church.

Hugs! Danny

Re: wow! what a cool idea, and great pics as well!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

That was fun! I could only find one mailbox; I know where one is in a couple other images, though I can't actually see it. I think the picnic table is actually a work bench, if you were looking at the sixth frame, although it's hard to tell even in the enlarged image. I should do this more often, it's kind of fun.