Eeyore's 2015, Acrobat.
I'm guilty of going to Eeyore's with mixed feelings about photography. Every year the party gets bigger and bigger and every year I feel more and more like a tourist there instead of a documentarian. I guess that's how you come to know that you are really tapped out. Now, don't get me wrong, I still think Eeyore's Birthday party is one of those quintessential Austin events.
The drum circles were operating a full intensity and ringed with an asteroid field of observers that was so dense photographers defaulted to a "hail Mary" approach to shooting, holding their cameras above their heads and craning their necks to see the images on the rear screen in live view.
The forest was filled with cliques of counterculture types looking defiant while trying to be surreptitious in their consumption of cannabis. Jugglers juggled and topless woman bounded through the throng with their breasts painted in bright colors and funny patterns.
It was 94 degrees by the time I got there and the heat was oppressive after our mild Spring. I tried to force myself into a formalist exercise by taking only one small camera and one inappropriate lens (or maybe my lens was appropriate but my brain wasn't properly calibrated for it. Whatever the reason I felt as though I was just "phoning it in" and so I dropped the camera to my side on its slender strap and just watched the people play. And that was alright too.
I can't really blame the camera or the lens. I was shooting with the Olympus EM5.2 and the Sigma 60mm f2.8 dn lens. It's just that everywhere I looked I had seen it all before....
Time to search for new experiences. Thinking about a shooting trip to Mexico City..... more later.
2 comments:
MEXICO CITY !
There are good shots from the plane on the way in. San Miguel de Allende is 150 miles north, that's where Michael Reichman, Luminous_Landscape blogs from. If you go, have a nice trip.BTW... I live in Cabo San Lucas.
Sometimes if you've been to an event several times before the magic just does not happen. I've had that happen and in the end the solution was to not go every year as a photographer. Just go to participate and connect.
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