a new angle

My greatest fear when taking photographs is to be cliché. In order to overcome that fear I decided that my challenge this week would be to photograph Rittenhouse Square. The square is beautiful and in my fresh eyes, a centerpiece to the city. It would be *exceptionally* easy to get cliché photos here, so I set out to find a new angle.

In the end, I decided that although the park is quite rich with beautiful greenery, statues, and fountains, it’s the people that congregate in the square that make it so special.

Here’s what I came up with.

Comments (as always) encouraged . . . .



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here we go

1. I love photography. Getting behind the lens opens a new world where I see beauty that was before invisible, talk to new people who were before inaccessible, and discover things about myself that would otherwise be left unknown.

2. Before I left St. Louis (old city), while talking about my plans to get back into photography in Philadelphia (new city) , a friend (shout out to book club), suggested I start a photography blog. I immediately dismissed the idea. I’m not the blog type.

3. I have something now that I haven’t had for a while: time.

4. I recently discovered, and loved, the blog of a new friend, and after talking with him about the process, was left intrigued.

1 +2 + 3 + 4 = “Photographing Philly”

I present my photographs here as a way of keeping myself accountable to a new goal: (really) learning photography. I welcome and hope for your comments. Which photos do you like and why? Which photos do you find boring and uninteresting and why? I will number photographs so that specific comments are easy to make. PLEASE COMMENT!!!

And so I leave you with my first day out photographing my new city.

Enjoy.


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