The Parade

Living in the city of Pasadena the annual Rose Parade almost insists that I take the camera out for street photography. It's like a stream that has suddenly been stocked with fish - to use an angler metaphor. The action takes place prior, during and following the parade.   Here are a few frames from the 2015-16 Rose Parade folder.

 Jim Staub, 12-30-16

The Streets Played

Reading the streets is a survival requirement for the bicyclist. The other vehicle bigger than you. A pothole, a car part ahead sharking for the careless.  There is a language, and I converse. Linger with the camera; note the lines then...  look both ways, and take the pieces home like any other coyote.

Jim Staub, 11-12-16  

Photographs 2012 to 2015, about.

New Substrates

Substrate - A layer that underlies something. 

Metamorphosis  - A major chance in appearance, form, structure of someone or something.

Topography - The arrangement of natural and artificial physical features of an area.

 Influences - Satellite space images. Microbiology images. Dreams.

About an Hour at York Train Station

In 2010 we took a vacation to England and Scotland. Our friends from Pasadena had moved to the Oxford district, so they threw the welcome mat down and played tour guides for a dozen days. We all took a train trip north to  Edinburg, Scotland for a few days. A stop over at the York train station gave me time to snap a few frames of the aged and beautiful station. Jim Staub - October 30, 2010

The Collected Snapshot - Part 1

Growing up with family photo albums and family slide shows gave me an early appreciation for photography. Years later I came to collected other people's albums and photographs at thrift shops and swap meets.   Call them snapshots, I'm fine with the slight which this may imply. I have found at the heart of a "snapshot" the untrained eye seeking a fact, with enthusiasm,  often producing an awkward beauty and truth. The informed art photographer must work very hard to get to the naivete of an actual snapshot, in their own work.

This short stack of snapshots are almost all anonymous and silent.  Silent owing to a lack of description; no names on the front of  back of the print. They are moments in time adrift. They are caught in this web for a brief spell.

Jim Staub - September 28, 2015