High Score
photo and words by evan travers
I have had an obsession in my photography recently. I’ve been fascinated with contrasts between warm and cool colors. It’s been something I’ve noticed really grabs my eye when I’m browsing my contact’s work, and it’s something that draws my eye to scenes. Although it’s gotten me in what feels like a bit of a rut artistically, I just haven’t been able to shake it. This photo is the result of that obsession. It was an idea that I’ve had in my head for a long time. Every time I washed dishes in the kitchen I would see these old apples, ripened past their prime but still beautiful like a sun browned grandmother. I just had the idea for the shot, I just didn’t have the light. One day I saw that light in one of our window sills and three minutes later I had the photo.
All through my “career” as a photographer (if you can call the frenetic products of an obsessed amateur a career,) there’s been that one photo that has driven me on, made me try to beat my “high score.” This is one of those photos. Every time one of these exposures is taken, you just know. Sometimes it is after some accident, either in the initial capture or in post processing. Sometimes it is the triumphant result of painstaking planning and work. In either case, it is those moments that I keep shooting for, a moment that justifies the sweat and tears of days of unhappy, unfruitful shooting. Those moments are golden, and it’s doubly awesome because that triumph is captured for all to see.
Evan can be found on flickr at www.flickr.com/evantravers, enjoys shooting his Nikon D80 and posting to this and many other blogs. You can follow him on twitter as @evantravers.
