I'm showing a pair of sample images that I have reconsidered in this era of the pixel. What began as a series of objects photographed on a lightbox in the 1990s, with a 4x5"view camera using film, I am now finding has an alternate existence in the digital realm. The new images were always there, it just required new means through the tools of technology to find them. Jim Staub_November, 2018
Pasadena, California has a great number of arts related events, in addition to many galleries and museums found within the city. One of the more popular art events is the Spring, once known as Chalk on the Walk and now, The Pasadena Chalk Festival. It has been going for over 20 years and grows in size each year with participants and spectators. I went to one of the first modest chalk events, so I can vouch for the event's thriving success of the present.
With the volume of people at the Chalk Festival it is always a good chance for the street photographer in me to exercise capturing the interactions and elements that come together to make a well timed image. The artists are caught up in their open air concrete 'canvas' chalk works. The observers are there to see the artists in their focused passion of creativity. The photographer is there attempting to catch the interplay between the forces chalk brings together... in approx. 90 min. of meandering.
Jim Staub, 11-2-18
