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Fishermen pt. 2

tait — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 04:11:37 +0000

Holmavik Harbor 01

Holmavik Harbor 02

Where are all the Fishermen?

tait — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:26:02 +0000

The West Fjords of Iceland are dotted with small fishing towns. Yet these towns seem to do very little actual fishing since the mid seventies when a quota system was enacted as a response to an overfishing crisis. While it has been successful in allowing the population of herring around Iceland to rebound, it has had other effects as well. A fisherman stepping off a small private boat in the village of Þingeyri said this year he had met his quota in a mere 5 days. Consequently, there is a lot of fishing equipment lying around and it is surprisingly difficult to get fresh fish in any of these towns (unless of coarse you have a boat and do it yourself). The law is apparently not strict about fishing for personal consumption.

Below are a couple of images of all this gear in the harbors of some of these towns with more to follow in the next few days.

Flags and Buoys 01

Flags and Buoys 02

What do you do with 12 plastic pails?

tait — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:20:28 +0000

I had the need for a single red plastic sand bucket as a prop a while back and found that it was a bit difficult to find in the winter in NY. So a quick search of the ol’ interweb brought me 12 plastic pails just in time for the shoot. Well, what do you do with 12 plastic pails once they’ve served their purpose as a prop (aside from recycle them or try to pawn them off on your friends’ children)? Make something bright and vacuous!

Sand Buckets / White Snow (eleven)

Sand Buckets / White Snow (five)

Sand Buckets / White Snow (blue)

Sand Buckets / White Snow (green)

Sand Buckets / White Snow (yellow)

Sand Buckets / White Snow (red)

Pride

tait — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:09:55 +0000

I know its not environmentally kosher, in fact I was a little shocked to see it, but there is an undeniable beauty of so many balloons in the sky. It reminds me of the end of Le Ballon Rouge, Albert Lamorisse’ 1956 short film.

From Reykjavik’s gay pride parade earlier this month:

Pride

Hotel Delmano

tait — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:09:08 +0000

You won’t often find me leaning over to take photographs of flowers, small animals or other such things, but here are a few images from a short series I was working on for a little while called Flowers at the Hotel Delmano. Each time I’d pass it seemed there was a new bouquet in the window and each time the light and scene outside made the same window unique.

On a related note, like past years, I’ll be donating a print to the Ah Haa school in Telluride for their annual fundraising auction. I was thinking about sending one of these (probably the second or last one) mostly because I really want an excuse to print one of these and see how it comes out. I have to decide and send them a jpg of the image, whatever it maybe, on Monday, so I’ve got the weekend to mull it over.

Flowers at the Hotel Delmano #1

Flowers at the Hotel Delmano #2

Flowers at the Hotel Delmano #3

Flowers at the Hotel Delmano #5

RGB

tait — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:56:19 +0000

I think I must be rebelling against my recent re-exploration of B&W because lately I’ve been carrying around a lot of color film and even shooting a number of pure color studies (and primary colors no less). Here are a some milk crates bookended by two images of dappled light (more dappled light here and here). Enjoy.

Red Wall

Green Bins

Blue Wall