The Ones I Like List of 2012 [#9]
©2012 Katya Horner
A Vision Softly Creeping. It’s what fog does right? To your vision? To your landscape? It doesn’t enter like a drunken streaker rounding third base; it’s cautious. It’s less of a precise moment and more of a blending of seconds. It creeps.
2012 brought a slight shift in how I think about fog photography. Where I used to think of fog primarily as an amazing tool for placing focus on a subject by eliminating distracting background elements, I now became intrigued by the “softly creeping” nature of fog, the “vision” that teetered right on the edge of “in focus” and indistinct. So far I’ve employed black and white processing to help achieve that imprecise state, but in 2013, I’d like to experiment with capturing that vagueness with color.
There will be another example of this new kind of fog photo as we move through this year’s The Ones I Like List. One photo that didn’t make the list, however, that was created with less concern for actual focus and more for the nature of something coming into focus is The Secret.
The title A Vision Softly Creeping comes from the Simon & Garfunkel song The Sound of Silence. Since music is such an inspiration for my photography, a couple of music tidbits:
Ten songs I was listening to in 2012: Blunderbuss (Jack White), Love Interruption (Jack White), Don’t Owe You a Thang (Gary Clark, Jr.), Baby Please Make a Change (Hugh Laurie), Where Have You Been (Rihanna), Diamonds (Rihanna), Someone Like You (Adele), Barton Hollow (The Civil Wars), Army of Me (Christina Aguilera), T.H.E. (will.i.am)
Listening to right now: Summertime (Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong)
