Should I Stay or Should I Go
Saint John 2013
One of my favorite local photographers, Graeme Stewart-Robertson, has started a photoblog I’m excited about.
Father and Son on Douglas Avenue
Saint John 2013
I don’t actually know if this is a father and son. Happy Father’s Day anyway.
Saint John Community Fair
Harbour Station Parking Lot 2013
Harbour Station Parking Lot 2013
I know taking photos at a fair is a super cliche thing to do. I never could avoid a cliche.
Another View of the Harbour Bridge
Saint John 2013
Really, this is a photo of a lamp. Everything else is context.
Sideways on King Street
Uptown Saint John 2013
Last shot of this particular Tim Hortons for awhile. I promise.
Mosquitos
Saint John 2013
Harbour Bridge
Saint John 2013
I hate that the SUV coming up the highway is split by the lamp post. On the other hand, I liked this frame because of the two trucks on the bridge that caught the pools of light.
So conflicted.
Little known Saint John fact: The first crossing of Harbour Bridge occurred on August 17, 1968. The bridge has been partially closed for construction ever since.
Ocean Steel
Saint John 2013
I’m not sure this business is actually named Ocean Steel anymore.
Transit on King Street
Saint John 2013
A bus passing in front of Urban Shoe Myth.
“Most of the images we see are a form of propaganda because they have an agenda. Although all photography has an agenda, photography in the advertising and commercial world in particular is only good for selling an image. Or in case of a family snapshot, it is to sell the notion of the perfect family. I am not saying that independent photographers don’t have an agenda, because they certainly do: you can send two photographers to the same city and they would come up with entirely different pictures. One a very positive, one a very negative.” – Martin Parr
From the Duke Street Rock
Saint John 2013
I waited a long time for someone to cross the street without a car or a truck in the way. In the end, I think I lost the best light, but I like something happening in that space.
edit to add: I’m told from my west side history contact the camera location is probably called Courtney Hill. I named it Duke Street Rock in case anyone is wondering where that came from.
2 Views of King Street Tims
Saint John 2013
Returned uptown on a rainy night.
I’m interested in the space between moments. I like the door that’s partially open in the below photograph, and the moment of a bus stopping to pick up a passenger in the above. I think that’s part of why I like dawn and dusk light so much as well — it always feels like that moment between moments, part anticipation and part boredom.
Saint John 2013
Coastal Taxi Headquarters
Saint John 2013
I’ve passed by this Main Street West icon probably, conservatively, 2500-3000 times since moving to the west side, and often think I should stop and get a photo. Finally did it.
The New York City Department of Records has made public an archive of over 800,000 of it’s images. Everything from city icons under construction to police photos from gang killings. Pretty incredible.
Duke Street Rock
West Saint John 2013
If the magic hour lasted forever, would it still be magic?
Working Port
Bay of Fundy 2013
Demonts Street
Saint John 2013
If no one with a little bias documents these streets, the people of the future will only have whatever the Google car didn’t blur beyond recognition.
Piggy Bank Loans
Encounter on Duke
Saint John 2013
“Home” he said.
I smiled.
“Mom”.
He pointed to the flowers.
And then he walked on up the hill.
Saint John 2013
Edit to add: I’m told this is John Boyle.
Reversing Falls to the Mouth of the Harbour
Saint John 2013
Click the image to see a larger version you can scroll horizontally.
Image will be printed in 3 sections, each 8 inches tall and 32 inches wide. Created from 14 individual images.
Lower West
Saint John 2013
Where residential pushes right up against the industrial.
Snacks
Saint John 2013
I wonder what they sell.
Down Ludlow
From Queen Street West, Saint John 2013
I have a new photographer-crush on Gregory Crewdson after watching his documentary Brief Encounters (trailer). His methods couldn’t possibly more different than mine, but I respect his methods and results a great deal.
The Cat on Whipple Street
Saint John 2013
Urban Planet Superheroes
West Saint John 2013
Little known fact: The lightbulb’s name is Lester “Les” Watts. True story.
Cats of Queen Street West
West Saint John 2013
West Saint John 2013
West Saint John 2013
It took me quite a time to warm up to it, but I now firmly believe that Saint John’s Lower West is her most visually interesting neighborhood.
Waiting on Mortality
A day at the beach in Saint John, New Brunswick
Saints Rest Beach, Saint John 2013
If you like this sort of thing, you might also like my series called A wretched width of cold on Flickr.
The Cookes and Regent Motel
Saint John 2013
Saint John 2013
Here’s another great Eggleston interview. Ignore the pre-amble and scroll down for the Q&A.
Fundy Bay Motel
West Saint John 2013
West Saint John 2013
West Saint John 2013
“In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you deal with making photographs with the tens of thousands of photographs being uploaded to Facebook every second, how do you manage that? How do you contribute to that? What’s the point?” – Alec Soth
Shadow on Fitzpatrick’s
Saint John 2013