Chris Jordan photography

http://chrisjordan.com/

CHECK THIS PHOTOGRAPHER OUT. I looked through his Katrina photos, and they are shocking, and beautiful at the same time. The tragedy feels completely surreal, and this is truly a photographer who "sees" and gets across what he feels to an audience. Read his descriptions too. Well worth it. Take a look at the "Running the Numbers" series. Even more shocking. Kind of opens your eyes (a lot). This is the kind of photography I want to aspire to do.

When the trees start to shed their colors...

When I think of fall...I think of home, and I think of Vermont. This past weekend I was home for October break and I took a surplus of photos of leaves, my kitchen, my dads garden, my cousins, my cats, pretty much everything I associate with autumn. To me, fall is my birthday, my home, apple crisp on the stove, pumpkin spice candles, my dad's homemade salsa, mason jars, the sun coming through the kitchen window, patches of scattered light on the floor, fiery red mountaintops, half barren trees, overlapping patterns of leaves covering the green grass, over saturated color that screams at me, patterned table clothes, apple cider, Burlington in full swing, cobblestone streets, cold rain, crisp mornings, and scarves. I can't wait to post more of my photos as I continue to sift through them all. But here is a quick preview of some fall close-ups.

Pools of leftover rainwater, gluing the leaves to a wooden bridge. Love the reflection, and how well you can see the water as it gathers around the edges of the leaves.

A droplet in the middle of an otherwise, relatively dry, path. I love the contrast of the diluted and heavy rocks against the frailty of the saturated, multicolored leaves that are thin, ripped, and weathered, contrasting again with the lines of the pine needles.

Milkweed blowing in the wind. Soft and serene.

Don't look away.

I was inspired by the fall this week, decided to try out a couple macro shots. I'm always paying attention to what I see around me when I'm walking to and from class, but I hardly ever take the time to photograph, especially when I get absorbed into school mode. I love the look of the crushed acorns contrasted with the pavement. It's kinda the cliche, nature versus humanity theme. But I was more interested in capturing the little details; the insides of the acorn strewn about, individual cracks and grains, the veins in the leaf, the color (especially working on accuracy of the translation of color), and all the imperfections and wear and tear of the weather and time.





Traina Center....outside Razzo hall at night. It's a long exposure, and the creepy looking shadow/ghostlike outline in the bottom right corner is me, as I left the frame. I promise. haha. And I have to be honest, I didn't even notice it before.

The beginning of a series of night pictures. Originally, because of the light, the photo was extremely orange. So, I worked with trying to make the colors more realistic. I was interested in the way the shadows of the trees were overlapping each other in different shades of grays against the lighter grey of the pavement. I especially like the way the shadow of a tree branch curves at the bottom right of the photo. It works to break up the lines a bit.

I love portraits, and the way these two look so natural next to each other.

All goes out through the windows

The photos for last week were inspired by a revisitation to a hallway in one of my friend's apartments at Clark. I was leaving her apartment, walked into the hallway, and was just overcome by how perfect the lighting was! This week I really tried to play around with the idea of natural, soft, white light and more reflections. Also, when I took the photos on the staircase, it was originally extremely dark. Let's just say, I fell in love with a tripod (maybe not so extreme), but I realized how much more you do with one. Now, I didn't completely grasp the hallway feeling I was going for, but it's getting there. The light coming through the window drowned out the details of the window, but if i brought up the aperture any more, the inside of the staircase would have been way too dark. So, there is a really intense reflection of light on the wallpaper which is a little distracting. I also worked on skin tones in photoshop this week, and working on making people look alive, rather than blue and dead. So, I think I did a pretty good job with that.

I played with the idea of cropping the bottom of this photo, but I decided that I liked the full view with more of the perspective of the windowsill. I also loved the way her hand was so naturally falling, and fading into darkness.

I loved the way her eyes translated on film, but the angle here is a little awkward.

Creepy. But I was trying to play with the idea of multiple reflections here. Originally I printed this photo in black and white, however, I decided to stick with the color because it contributes to a feeling of immediacy. While the black and white is more ghost like, the color is more real and tangible, and almost creepier because it's so vivid and present. This was a window in the hallway outside my suite, and there were three windows. I opened them all and kept seeing what kind of an effect I could get from different angles.