Brooms, The Star Works
Star, North Carolina
These brooms were leaning against the wall at the Star Works, an artist incubator located near Seagrove, North Carolina. I was photographing a pair of artists creating beautiful two toned whiskey glasses. During a break in the process, I noticed these brooms, walked over and made the image before returning to photograph glass making. It’s there all by its lonesome in my LightRoom loupe view. Many photographs of a single topic on either side, it is the square peg surrounded by round holes.
This image doesn’t belong to any project, genre or much of anything else that I have done. Something about this place told my subconscious make a photograph. I did that. Eventually I will figure out how to use this image.
One of the advantages of digital photography is the ability to “take a flyer” with a photographic situation. In the days of view cameras there was a huge investment in time both (in the field and in the darkroom) and in money to make a photograph. With digital photography, the time invested is small and almost no cost to record a scene. In the past I would have ignored the muse, but now I listen to her every word.
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