"ninety-three" Joseph Vavak "ninety-three" Joseph Vavak

Out and about...


With the Hot Shops show just a few months away, it's time to finish and tidy up ninety-three for its debut. Today I set out to find an image for Douglas County and wandered Cuming County for what felt like the 20th time. Sometimes I just can't seem to find something that will work.

Pictured above is an old barn still standing all by itself in a recently harvested field near Bancroft.

Also visited: Omaha, Aloys, West Point, Beemer and Bancroft.
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"Artists" Joseph Vavak "Artists" Joseph Vavak

John Vachon


"Omaha looked swell this morning out the train window," wrote John Vachon. "Very unspectacular, and ordinary looking, but definitely camera-challenging.

John Vachon wasn't from Nebraska, but he extensively photographed Omaha and Nebraska for the Farm Security Administration in late 1938. There are quite a few (sadly low quality) images of Nebraska available here on the Library Of Congress website.

The always excellent Shorpy has quite a few high resolution images by Vachon here.
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Image: Instance #2


Just a small taste of something new that I've begun working on over the last few weeks. The process shows a lot of promise, I think.

The series will be titled An Instance. Merriam-Webster defines instance as "a step, stage, or situation viewed as part of a process or series of events," and that's pretty much exactly what these photographs represent. A moment (or step) in time that's defined by a process and its somewhat unpredictable results.

I'll let you use your imagination as to how this was accomplished. In actuality, it's really quite simple.
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