I got a late start this morning, but finally got out of the house and down to the Mills to get shooting. I parked a bit away and started walking down the river knowing there was some good swampy marsh next to the path…unfortunately by this time the light was full on and I wasn’t going to get anything good from the marsh so I headed to the back side of the Shops @ the Mills. I found some cattails which had blown, they were looking a little scraggly, but had some good texture and that was what I was looking for today. After a while I got a call from Dina my event photography business partner and she decided to join me and shoot some. I found some great backdrops for my portrait work while I was out today…and some nice textures as well. Hope you enjoy -t-

Well week one’s self-assignment is in the can, as they say. The topic of the day was lines and shapes. The chosen location was Downtown Bend.

After a stop at Star Bucks to fuel up on a tasty Caramel Macciatto, I began walking looking for interesting lines and shapes. I didn’t have to walk very far, basically right out SB’s front door was the statue of the man on the bench. I liked the intersecting lines that the sidewalk and the street made…so that’s where I started. After about 2 hours I had done a circle around downtown proper and called it a day. Enjoy, I’ll post more after next weeks “assignment”. -t-

(note: I started doing these weekly projects in the summer of 2009 to 1. re-examine the fundamentals of design 2. find cool place in/around town 3. have a small break from shooting sports. Each week I chose a different design element and location to shoot and spent a couple hours on the morning shooting only that element and only in that particular location.)