“Abundance”
Kevyn Bashore’s 365 Day iPhone Photo of the Day
Local Grocery Store
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Wednesday, January 4, 2011
iPhone 4s Camera – Olloclip – Snapseed – Photo Toaster – Dynamic Light
Tag Archive: fruit
“Grandma’s Miracle Fruit”
Friday, June 10, 2011
iPhone 4 Camera
Hipstamatic
Lens: John S
Film: Blanko Noir
Flash: Off
“Squandered”
Parking Lot, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania
Saturday, March 26, 2011
iPhone 4 Camera
Hipstamatic app
Lens: John S
Film: Kodot XGrizzled
Flash: Off
Parking my Tangerine colored Element, I pulled out my gym bag and reached into it to grab my gym membership card, only to pull out a dried, prune-like orange. Casting it aside and watching it roll to a stop on the pavement, I couldn’t help but view this as another 365 Day iPhone Photo of the Day moment. So I yanked out my iPhone and knelt onto the ground. What draws me to this image is the texture and color. It would not work as a black-and-white image. The aged, textured, painted white parking line, angular and straight, juxtapositioned against the cold, dark, rough macadam, which echoes the dried, orange, brown and blackened surface of the fruit, makes a strange, but fascinating image.
Realizing that I had forgotten to eat this fruit after one of my workouts, and never one to ignore a good symbol staring me in the face, I couldn’t help but ponder the message in this image: from missing a timely harvest, literally and figuratively, to squandering talents and gifts. But good art speaks for itself, so I’ll allow the viewers to create their own stories and messages from this image.
“After the Pruning”
From the album: After The Pruning
Saturday, March 5, 2011
iPhone 4 & Hipstamatic App
Fens: John S
Film: Kodot XGrizzled
Flash: Off
Additional lens: Eye Scope – Mobile Zoom Lens
As I passed this orchard on the highway, I was reminded of all the times I told myself I wanted to stop and photograph it. The next day, driving in the opposite direction at dusk, I zoomed by the same orchard again before realizing it. And the same urge to stop and shoot it arose. And the same thought, “I’ll stop some other day”, trumped it, so I kept driving. But my recent commitment to the 365 Day Photography project gave me the impetus to conquer the voice of procrastination that kills creativity and productivity. So I came to an abrupt halt and parked several hundred yards down the highway. If I didn’t shoot it now, at this very moment when the lighting was perfect and the trees were so stark and barren, then when? Giving wide birth to the herd of tractor trailers that stampeded by, I ran back along the road, crawled up a high embankment and squeezed through a wire fence to grab some last minute shots.
There is such a starkness after a tree is pruned. But in it’s barrenness, there is beauty. For fruitfulness demands times of rest and stripping of all that is excess, waste and sucking away the potential for abundance. I have been in a dormant state like this for quite some time. But even as I shot these photographs, of limbs and branches beginning to be filled with the surge of sap that will bring new life and harvest, I can feel new life surging within.
I used a special zoom lens for the iPhone that is very difficult to focus, so most of the shots are blurry. But even still, I actually like the strange colors and blurs created by the lens, camera, app and time of day. There is a creepy serenity to it all. A lovely dance of shape, color, light and form…
“Fruit Of My Labors”
From the album: Eating, Drinking Color & Light
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Lens: John S
Film: Kodot XGrizzled
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Day 31 – A Life Well Lived – Kevyn Bashore’s iPhone Photo of the Day
“A Life Well Lived”
Susquehanna River Bridge
From the Album: Harrisburg Flood Day II
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Monday, March 14, 2011
iPhone 4 & Hipstamatic App
Lens: John S
Film: Kodot XGrizzled
Flash: Off
Although this shot was in yesterday’s photo album: Harrisburg Flood Day II, it was such a powerful image, I wanted to make it today’s Pick Of The Day in my 365 Day Camera Phone Project.
The arches are the foundation for a historic bridge that spans the mile-wide Susquehanna River in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Several of these beautiful bridges grace the city’s riverfront. While shooting this shot, the river had already crested at 20′ 1″ and was receding. The cold front that brought the deluge of record breaking rainfall cleared the atmosphere, allowing the golden light of sunset to cast this beautiful image of the tree on the concrete backdrop.
As I studied this location, I was intrigued by the passersby who gathered to view the ephemeral impression on the wall. And I couldn’t help but imagine that if this tree had a conscience, it would only be aware of it’s own stately form by the shadow it casts on the wall behind it. A shadow that can only exist in the searing light of the sun. This tree stands in strength in the ground in which it was planted. It adds to the beauty around it by complimenting the environment, not by stealing from it. It’s glory is it’s unabashed and humble display of grandeur and strength.
And so it is with humans. Self-absorption is unattractive. Vanity snuffs out beauty. Jealousy kills the object of its envious gaze. And pride gains power from diminishing all others within it’s realm. For character trumps reputation. Reputation is who people think we are; character is who we really are. And in the end, the light of truth will emblazon an imprint of our true character on the wall of history behind us, revealing for all to see either a withered twig–or the stately form of a life well-lived.