This was a split second moment, and I almost missed it. This project was more for fun than anything commercial, though this was sold as a print only once.

Rather than try to fix the light and see his face, I darkened the colors to hide it more.

A bit more fun, rounding the color with an easy fade to gray.

Then wanted to play with words, trying to choose a song lyric from the my current playlist at the time.

Originally the lyric was going to be “Metaphor for a missing moment” from the song Orestes by Perfect Circle.

Instead, the final image used the lyrics from Linkin Park’s A Place For My Head — “I wanna be in another place, I hate when you say you don’t understand”

The font used is “A Theme for Murder” by Christopher Hansen (available on dafont.com).

A side note about photography….

I find photography to be more of an artistic release, and tend to shoot for that purpose, rather than for commercial reasons or uses.

I photograph because I want to capture a secret split-second moment, and I want that moment to mean something.  Even if it’s something most see as trivial or mundane, it’s what I see and what that image means to me. Some of my images I have found to be able to transverse the artistic to commercial, but its only been in rare cases. And most of the time, completely by accident.

I was taught by my photography teacher that you can’t judge one’s photographic skill solely based on the gear they use. Sometime the best pictures can be taken from a simple point and shoot, and just because you have the latest model DSLR with the best lens does not mean you have instant photographic gold.

My photographic arsenal is equipped with a Cannon AE-1 SLR with multiple lenses, a Minolta Maxxum 7-Xl, a Vivitar film SLR, a Nikon Coolpix E4200 point and shoot, and Nikon Coolpix S4100 point and shoot, and occasionally the iPhone7.