Everything from 2011…
This youtube video includes all of the photographs posted at my blog during 2011.* Yes, all of them! The photographs appear more or less in the order they were made, so this forms a sort of year-long overview. Since it does include everything, there are going to be a few, uh, slow moments in the video. (I do not recommend viewing at full screen size on large monitors since the original images used in the video were relatively small.)
If this is a slow day for you, you could even watch the whole thing!
I put this together while doing initial work on the 2001 Favorites list, an annual project of assembling a set of what I regard as some of my best work of the past year. I have some ideas about which images will make the cut for that more limited set, but I’d love to hear your opinions about what you think should be included, too. I’ll post the “finalists” for the 2011 Favorites sometime in the next week or so.
* OK, I made a lot more photographs in 2011 than what you see here. But most will never be seen in public. :-)
(Update: A few people asked “why no music to accompany the photographs?” This brings up a whole series of thoughts that I should explore in depth at some point, but which I’ll mention briefly for now. Let me get the easy one out of the way first – this wasn’t meant to be a “real” production. It was just a way for me to string together a large number of images as part of my own review of my 2011 photographs. On to the more complex issues…
Some of you may know that my academic training is in music. So, for me, adding music to images is not a simple thing – I’m afraid that I’m cursed with thinking “too much” about what it means and how it works together. For me, the idea of just “adding some music” is not a simple idea at all. In fact, it raises some questions about why we think that individual photographs are worthy of consideration in silence… but sequences of them seem to raise expectations that a musical accompaniment will be provided. Finally, given the diverse images in this large set it is hard for me to come up with a meaningful musical accompaniment that somehow ties in with the images in more than a random way. I suppose that I really need to compose my own… )
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I’d tell you I agree… but you already know that! ;-)
… and of course this musician would be wondering the whole time, “What?! Music can’t be listened to without pictures?” ;-)
Okay, maybe not. I guess you’d have to put music with them for me to find out what my real reaction would be.
I do know that when I go to a YouTube video to hear music and find it has visual art included instead of the performers I am bugged — I think it’s because I don’t want someone else deciding what I’ll be seeing when I hear music. Go figure.
Ivan – Thanks for the comment. One of the reasons I did not add music is that… I’m a musician, and just adding “some music” to images seems strange to me. I suppose what I really need to do is create some music to go with the final “Favorites” post.
I was musing elsewhere that it is odd that we presume that photographs, when presented in a sequence, must be accompanied by music…
Dan
Dan – enjoyed the video and your images. But was expecting music to go along with it,, especially with you being a musician..