Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Day 4 in Island Pond was the last day. I had checked the weather and knew the light was going to be nice, so I woke up early and went for a shoot around town. Like the boat photograph, people in North East Kingdom are notorious for having old machinery laying about their property. I personally think that’s fucking sick and could simply just do a body of work on that alone. It has that used, stepping back in time look that I’m so attracted to. I came across a few old Jeeps that I knew of in town. I chose this shot of the blue jeep because it truly defines the film I had in the camera at the time (Kodak Vibrant Color 400). I also found this orange skidder off of a dirt road and couldn’t pass the color as well. Another color I couldn’t pass up was a sea foam green cargo container. I pretty much made the photograph because it happens to be one of my favorite colors. Ironically my Grandpa Clement was also wearing it when we stopped in to grab some stuff from his garden. I definitely would have had to spend more time with Clement to get a good shot of him. The last object to photograph was an old cement silo on the way home. I thought it was really stereotypical to see all the BudLight cans on the ground and “Git-R-Done” written on the walls. I guess that’s Vermont’s future rught thurrrr….
