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Photos, Spring 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you walk most days, you see some things. At ground level, traveling between 2.5 miles per hour (when you leave early) and 3.5 miles per hour (when you know you\u2019re late), you have time to look, to observe, and to say to yourself, hey, I should capture this image. I carry all manner of toys \u2014 my wife calls it the bag of dorkdom \u2014 along with my phone. This year I\u2019ve been using a Nikon D3500 with a 50mm lens and a GoPro 10.  I have an iPhone 12 mini that I use for the Spring Garden Bridge shot every day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking changes your perspective. Here’s a recent book that offers a number of perspectives on how<\/a>. Rebecca Solnit wrote about it too. <\/a> And at least twice a year, while I’m walking, I listen to this essay again<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this project I wanted to think about the people and places you can only see when you are walking. \u00a0Any city vista is a kind of time capsule, a vision of what has come before and what will come next.\u00a0 That fancy word \u2014 palimpsest \u2014 captures it well, underscoring that you can see the past, the present, and the future together. \u00a0 Part of my walking portfolio, then, has to be about this, about how we see all of these elements together. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Set one: <\/strong>the same spot, over and over again.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking into Google photos, where my images are stored, I have taken this picture no less than five hundred times. I stand between the same two poles on the Spring Garden Bridge, try and catch the lines just right, and shoot. I then text it to our family group chat. As I’m generally within a fifteen minute window I could probably figure out the solar calendar with these photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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April 12th<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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March 27th<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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March 7th<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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February 8th<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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January 18th<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Set two: Objects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each time you walk you find all manner of things that are lost, discarded, picked from the trash, thrown on the ground or dropped. Some I pick up — my dog poop bags work well for this — and carry along. Some are puzzling — what is this and how did it get here — which led me to create page of these pictures for creative writing prompts. Here’s the object; what story would you tell? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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April 5th, 6 AM 49th Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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April 9th, 7:10AM, 43rd and Baltimore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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April 11th, 7:15 AM, Baltimore Ave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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April 12th, 7:10am, Clark Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Set three: Writing, notes, paper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is text everywhere. I’m always surprised at the number of notes you can find on the ground, discarded. Reminds me of my days in used book stores, where you’d open a book and find the most poignant inscription; still the book ended up in the discard pile. (Favorite was a gifted book from one famous author to another… guess it didn’t mean much.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s also formal signage — I love this club that has SOME line dancing — as well as graffiti. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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45th and Baltimore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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18th and Spring Garden, Trash Can<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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50th and Market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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45th and Larchwood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Penn Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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April 10th, 7:40 AM, Spring Garden Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From Sunday: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photos, Spring 2025 Introduction If you walk most days, you see some things. At ground level, traveling between 2.5 miles per hour (when you leave early) and 3.5 miles per hour (when you know you\u2019re late), you have time to look, to observe, and to say to yourself, hey, I should capture this image. I … Continue reading Only while walking<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8rNFZ-2h6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8791,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8748\/revisions\/8791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}