A Few Wisconsin Memories, Summer 2022
September 25, 2022
When I visit my daughter and her wife—which I did last month—I always look for things to photograph around their house. I also like to take advantage of being driven around to practice intentional camera movement (ICM). Here’s what I saw this year.
1 I hadn’t yet seen Mic.’s Wall Hangings when I took this photo. Wonder if we photographed tools on the same day.
2 The house is filled with light, held back here and there with draperies.
3 Australian walkabout painting meets sunflowers.
4 Sun throws the spotlight on a zucchini flower.
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Romancing Reality 
6 and 7 work for me, I recall doing similar in Sicily some years ago
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September 25, 2022 at 4:16 AM
ICM is fun, isn’t it. You can spend a lot of time with few good results, though. I like that I’m not controlling everything when I do it. I like the element of chance.
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September 25, 2022 at 5:10 PM
You certainly can spend a lot of time with few good results, but it’s fun trying!
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September 26, 2022 at 3:18 AM
I like the way you spoke of draperies holding back the light. The Australian painting probably doesn’t show a sunflower, but whatever that circular area represents is nicely juxtaposed against the actual sunflower. Your zucchini flower looks a lot like the flowers of the buffalo gourd that grows wild in central Texas. I don’t recall if I asked whether you’ve tried intentional camera movement on people as well as objects.
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September 25, 2022 at 9:39 AM
I think you’re right, Steve, about the Australian painting. I found the vague similarity interesting, too. I just checked with my resident botanist; he says the flowers of squash, pumpkins, melons, and gourds look alike. They are all in the Cucurbitaceae family. I don’t think you have asked about my trying ICM with people; I have not. I have used it with objects, though. See https://lindagrashoff.com/tag/intentional-camera-movement/page/27/ and https://lindagrashoff.com/tag/intentional-camera-movement/page/28/ and https://lindagrashoff.com/tag/intentional-camera-movement/page/45/.
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September 25, 2022 at 7:20 PM
Your ICMs are beautiful, Linda. And hanging garden tools is a delight. Well done.
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September 25, 2022 at 11:27 AM
Thank you, Ken. It was a thrill to find those garden tools in the garage.
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September 25, 2022 at 7:21 PM
The ICM work is wonderful, Linda. You’ve taken us all the way from quotidian hand tools hanging on a rack to natural phenomena (that gorgeous light in the window, the happy sunflower) to the finest abstract imagery. I like to pick favorites, so…sunflower? Yes! The caption for #2 is a favorite, too. And #6 – I really like seeing recognizable forms in an abstracted photo. But I like the last photo just as much because it’s so exuberant. It’s full of motion that seems barely controlled, just this side of outer space. Travel suits you!
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September 26, 2022 at 9:27 PM
Thank you, Lynn. The sunflower doesn’t quite feel like my other photographs; not sure why. Glad it worked for you. I’d been wanting to do some ICM stuff for some time, and it was good to have the chance to do it so effortlessly. Would like to do more travelling—and get chauffeured around.
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September 27, 2022 at 7:53 PM
I think I can see what you mean by the sunflower photo being unlike your usual work but I can’t put my finger on why that is. Something about the composition, I think, and the subject matter?
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September 27, 2022 at 8:22 PM
It’s partly the composition for sure. I don’t usually chop things (the painting, the vase) off from their wholeness. Or when I do, it’s to zero in for an abstract. And maybe the subject matter—or would this still be composition—is more complex.
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September 27, 2022 at 8:26 PM
I had the same response when I saw the tools on the wall, Linda. I like it! And the symmetry between the sunflowers and the painting is perfect…well seen. And the last ICM image, #9…do I see a landscape with clouds under the movement? Nice post!
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September 27, 2022 at 1:37 PM
Thanks, Mic. I’d like to photograph some fog when you do, but we don’t get enough of it. As I told Lynn, the sunflower photo seems unlike most of mine. Maybe I should aim for more photos unlike most of mine. You probably do see a landscape with clouds in #9; that’s mostly what I shot on that car trip. Will do some more ICM in the neighborhood, or so I keep saying to myself.
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September 27, 2022 at 8:00 PM
Maybe this fall you’ll get some fog. Send me an email so if we have fog here I can go out and shoot some too.
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September 28, 2022 at 7:51 PM
It’s a deal, Mic.
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October 1, 2022 at 5:37 PM