Here I am, trying to sleep, and I can’t. so I figure I’ll post something. These are from the shoot that sunday afternoon, with Kyle in Bartlesville. There were a lot of things that were wrong, unprepared-for, and generally hilarious about this shoot, but overall, I can’t complain, the images look pretty good. This is broken into two posts, just to ease the server load.
Went to Bartlesville a couple weeks ago, saw the sights, did some things, got into stuff. My friends Heather and Kyle invited me up to see a show, Truckstop Honeymoon, and to shoot Kyle’s two-man band, er… not sure what their name is, I’ll update this when I find out.
So, when I went up there, I thought I was going to be sleeping on a couch. This is fine, I’ve done it many times before, and don’t really mind. Kyle had other ideas. He got me a suite in the Price Tower, which if you don’t know, is the only skyscraper designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (well, the only one that got built, at least). I don’t know how, I only know that he paid very little for it through some connection he had. Nice if you can get it, that’s for sure.
“Photography is not a ‘difficult’ medium. All photographs are, by definition, ‘easy’ to make—you just push a button. The value of the medium lies in the photographer’s calling a moment in time to our attention—a moment we might otherwise have missed—and saying ‘this is important.’ It takes something simple and fleeting and turns it into something emblematic.” – William Eggleston
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