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reoccurring themes

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Sometimes we don’t really notice patterns when we’re too close them. Day in and day out we carry on with our routines and rhythms, repeating actions, activities, habits and rituals. We wake and walk and work. We lift our forks to eat, our pens to write, children to love, our cameras to click. Every day with little fanfare.

I’ve recognized my love affair with coffee mugs for years. The shape, the feel, the message, the color, the rim, the handle. I notice and take note of all of these things each time I lift my mug to sip. And yet, it wasn’t until I began to use my iphone (and instagram) that I really noticed how much I really observe the beauty, simplicity, and poetic and hopeful aesthetics of this simple everyday object and how this one seeminly mundane item takes center stage in so many of my photographs.

Is there something you have found that often takes the center of your attention? The subject matter of your images that occurs again and again in ways that might even surprise you?

Take a good look at what it is that captures your eye and your lens and share with us the reoccurring themes of your daily work.

Comments

  6. I have a couple of "themes" that rule my photography:

    1. Vintage cameras: http://www.flickr.com/photos/libertadleal/sets/72157624752449950 (this is an obsession, let's be real here hehe)

    2. The different shades of blue of the sky (this I did not realize until recently):

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/libertadleal/5763476053
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/libertadleal/5772079596
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/libertadleal/5654305206
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/libertadleal/5016259995
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/libertadleal/5629713267

  10. I find myself drawn to photographing barbed wire often, and what is behind it. There is a great contrast of textures between the sharp metal and sift countryside people wrap it around. I also really love park benches, empty but full of possibilities and stories.

  13. Ohhh I love this question! Thank you for the really interesting post!

    Like everyone else, I have more than one theme: reflections of people and objects in water, bicycles and motorcycles around the world, photos of Coca Cola ads worldwide. I wish I had a link to some of these — you are inspiring me to publish some of these photoessays!

  17. I have one coffee mug that I LOVE … and have searched for years for another just in case it gets broken. But the thing I seek mostly in my pictures is I love roads or paths or alleys … guess I'm always wanting to travel down them!

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