100th Post

Transitions - Best of 2008

Slideshow best viewed at 3 seconds per frame, while accompanied by these three songs in sequence:

1 - Didn't it Rain?
2 - Spiral Re-born
3 - Some Other Time
(All songs composed by Yoko Kanno, they are from the shows
Chikyuu Shoujo Arjuna,
∀ Gundam, and
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, respectively)


For my 100th post, I wanted to do something big. I went through all of the photos I had taken so far this year, and picked out what I thought were the best. I then proceeded to try and whittle the selection down to the best 100. I got fairly close, but it kept getting harder and harder to go any further. After a while I realized that it wasn't too important to reduce it to 100. I discovered that when I viewed the pictures in sequence, the images took on more significance. They start to describe my way of seeing and exploring things, such as how I like to take a picture of a subject within a wide view, and then zoom in to see more details, or how I like to go back and photograph something in different light at a later date. It is these transitions that tell the story. It is through observing the transitions throughout an hour, a day, a week, a season, and a year that I feel connected to a place.
I really enjoy looking through my photos, partly because I can remember the experience of being in that place and seeing that thing, but also because I can often see things that I hadn't noticed at the time. In the picture of the yarrow flowers near the beginning of the slideshow, you can see a tiny spider camouflaged against the flowers. I didn't notice that for a long time, even after repeatedly looking at the photo. I hope you will also observe closely, and enjoy.