Spring Storms
While I’ll be combining shots here from two shoots (March 22nd and March 29th), I’ve lately been more cognizant of how to approach these posts. Or maybe: how to approach going out for shoots if the end product is a post here. Even though this is two shoots it may as well function as a single outing: a meandering Saturday one weekend and a similar Sunday the next. Below is what I saw across Tower Grove, The Grove, Forest Park and beyond. As for what I intend to change about how I go about shoots, it’s just orienting slightly more towards narrative given that these are essentially photoessays. I have an out-of-town project next Saturday that I think will lend itself pretty well to that approach.
50mm, f/11
A couple taking a selfie under a blooming cherry tree.
50mm, f/4
85mm, f/2
I stumbled on a bag pipes player at the Turkish pavilion. He marched a bit back and forth and I tried to get permission for some shots with eye contact, but he neither declined nor nodded. But this was definitely the most happening thing on that side of the park at the moment, so…
50mm, f/2
50mm, f/5.6
50mm, f/4.5
50mm, f/13
This group of four chickens greeted me over by the Scottish Arms on Sarah St. I used to tend the little garden here and came by to see if anything was planted when I met these ladies. I wish for this one I’d gotten even lower, like eye level with them.
50mm, f/9
50mm, f/8
Forest Park
50mm, f/16
The flower beds in front of the St. Louis Art Museum.
50mm, f/8
I drove out about forty five minutes west to the Shaw Nature Reserve in Franklin County for the first time and decided to drive a bit around the area. I found this lot not far from the Reserve where one of the tornados ripped through a couple of weeks ago. There was quite a bit of damage besides in the area.
