The Daily Shoot 103

The assignment for Friday February 26 (#ds103) was “Novelty can help goose creativity. Go somewhere today you’ve never been, even just a different street, and make a photo.”

As explained in the previous post, I’d gone to the Fine Arts Center (FAC) to get measured for a part in a show, with the intent of going out afterwards to complete this task. Of course, by the time I was done with the costumer, it was getting dark. I knew the streets around that area pretty well, so it would have meant jumping in the car and going somewhere I wasn’t so familiar with and having to contend with very dim light by the time I got there.

I then remembered a nearby sculpture that I’d never really looked at. I’d driven by it innumerable times to be sure, but had never stopped. It was familiar as a shape that I’d seen before, but unfamiliar in that I’d never really looked at it. That counts in my book. Especially at that time of the evening.

It took a steady hand because the light was failing pretty rapidly, so I’m pretty amazed it came out as well as it did. (The red on the breast of the lower bird is from reflections of street lights). Like the sculpture outside the FAC, I forgot to make a note of the title and artist of the piece, and damn it if I can’t find any info about it online. I’ll update this post later.

The Google Maps reference is here. It’s at the junction of Cascade and Mesa in Colorado Springs,

(Note: on rereading this before posting I suddenly noticed the task said “Novelty can help goose creativity.” So it seems I went for a subconscious visual pun.)

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