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Material and Resignation #3 Harrison, Montana 2011

If you use it enough, is it possible to start seeing meaning in a randomly generated title?]]>

Material and Resignation #2 Harrison, Montana 2011

Since it’s a similar image, I might as well double down on the randomly generated title from yesterday. This is the type of abstract image that I’m compelled to photograph for reasons I don’t really understand; I can’t explain why I find interesting, I just do. Given the lack of a compelling explanation or title is likely what leads artists to creates the kinds of names the random generator produces. If you can’t explain something, obfuscate it and hope no one calls your bluff. The emperor’s not wearing clothes!]]>

Material and Resignation Harrison, Montana 2011

Does an image, particularly and abstract image, need a title to make it meaningful? Or is a title a needless distraction or an admission of an image that can’t stand on it’s own. This is a sometimes heated topic that appears from time to time in online photography forums. I couldn’t think of a good title for this photograph of weathered shingles on the side of a derelict beauty, so I created one using a random abstract art title generator I found online. That should stir the title argument pot (or would if any of those folks who spend time contemplating the issue were actually readers of my blog).]]>

Lectio #50 Pony, Montana 2011

A dusty old book collection in a closed bank building in Pony.

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Giants of Industry Billings, Montana 2011

The first time I photographed this refinery back in about 2007, it netted me a phone call from the local sheriff and later a house call by the FBI (neatly outfitted in their black suits with badges and guns). By 2011 the local terrorist paranoia had apparently subsided a bit.]]>

Six Pack of Abstracts Billings, Montana 2011

Each one of these broken window panes could be an abstract composition on it’s own; granted, some are more interesting than others. My favorite is the one in the upper left.]]>

Leave Me Alone Paradise Valley, Montana 2014

These are the same two ravens as in yesterday’s post. Perhaps this squabbling is how they got to be so ragged.]]>

Ragged Company Paradise Valley, Montana 2014

A couple of well-worn ravens making the rounds together.

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The Geography of Survival #14 Livingston, Montana 2014

I see a volcano with puffs of smoke coming out if it in this one.]]>

The Geography of Survival #13 Livingston, Montana 2014

If you don’t see mountains with a cloud filled sky above, or a swarm of UFOs, or a school of fish, or something even more creative in this tree bark pattern, your imagination must be on summer vacation.]]>